Beyond Saying "No"

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Would it be OK for a Mormon doctor to apply electroshock therapy to "cure" a gay? Ask Michael Otterson, spokesman for the LDS Church about such doctors at BYU.

Would it be OK for a Mormon doctor to apply electroshock therapy to "cure" a gay? Ask Michael Otterson, spokesman for the LDS Church about such doctors at BYU.

How condescending!

they--along with the physicians in their midst--have a religious obligation to provide alternative ministries of healing, compassion and support...

If the patient asks for a legal procedure, the physician should provide it or, if conscience forbids, refer to someone who will (and not charge for the visit.) A woman seeking an abortion knows the alternatives. It is not the right of the meddling physician to dissuade her. The alternatives are not medical options.

The "servants of the One" should not presume to know what is best for the rest of us.

Even in countries where the law permits abortion for rape victims, women who seek the operation can encounter a wall of obstruction. In Peru, a 17-year-old girl discovered that her foetus had anencephaly - meaning that it was going to be born without a brain - but a doctor refused to allow her access to an abortion. She was compelled to give birth and breastfeed the child for four days before its died.

In the Sante Fe province of Argentina, a social worker told the organisation Human Rights Watch about a woman who went into hospital after having an unsafe abortion and was bleeding badly. "A doctor started to examine her, and when he realised, he threw down his instruments and said: 'This is an abortion. You go ahead and die'."

Conscience - such a wonderful thing!

No kidding? "There are some things that God forbids us to do." Can't find an argument against that. But what does "God forbids us to do" anyhow?

Exodus 20
The Ten Commandments
1 And God spoke all these words:

2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 "You shall have no other gods before [a] me.

4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.

http://www.hoax-buster.org/sellyoursoul says your God is a rather "strange" one. I'm having trouble not believing it. Maybe we should be sure we have the correct God before we start deciding what "God forbids us to do." I understand the punishment for "strange Gods" is rather severe. Could it be worse than the punishment for no God at all?

"I am the Lord your God" should be "I am just plain one and only God" shouldn't it? Doesn't this say that was only "the God" of a group of people? Why should I accept that God as my God not being in that group of people myself. Your God isn't the loot form a robbery is it?

The Romans insisted on robbing the Jews and the Jews managed to hide everything but their God so the Romans took it? That taught them a lesson not yet forgotten.

Well lets hope and pray that God doesn't decide to once more decide what is morally allowable based on the color of ones skin, the others belief or non-belief or even the sex of the patient.

But the fact is, we are already seeing worrying signs that this is once more starting to occur in certain fields of care.

Duty to people needs to come first. This slippery slope of faith and conscience are the divisions of divisive teachings which will ultimately result in needless suffering.

Are there other areas besides abortion where you feel prayer and social support may have more to offer than medical science?