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Yet another controversial Surgeon General

President Bush has nominated Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger to be the surgeon general (which is pretty much a huge waste of a position, but I digress). Dr. Holsinger is eminently qualified:

Holsinger served as Kentucky's health secretary and chancellor of the University of Kentucky's medical center. He taught at several medical schools and spent more than three decades in the Army Reserve, retiring in 1993 as a major general.

Holsinger received his bachelor's degree from the University of Kentucky, master's degrees from the University of South Carolina and Asbury Theological Seminary and a doctorate and medical degree from Duke University.

I especially like that he is both a real general and Surgeon General!

So what is the issue? It appears that Dr. Holsinger is a crazed Christian radical, a member of that well known right wing denomination the United Methodist Church:

As president of the Methodist Church's national Judicial Council, Holsinger voted last year to support a pastor who blocked a gay man from joining a congregation. In 2004, he voted to expel a lesbian from the clergy. The majority of the panel voted to keep the lesbian associate pastor in place, citing questions about whether she had openly declared her homosexuality, but Holsinger dissented.

Sixteen years ago, he wrote a paper for the church in which he likened the reproductive organs to male and female "pipe fittings" and argued that homosexuality is therefore biologically unnatural.

Of course we get a well reasoned argument from the other side:

(Christina) Gilgor, the gay rights activist, called the paper "one twisted piece of work."

Even things that are plainly true are unspeakable if they cross the homosexual agenda.

It is plainly true, Scripture aside, that men and women are designed to be sexually compatible and homosexual activity is by it's very nature unnatural. Despite the biological evidence, despite the very clear Scriptural and cultural norms that are millennium old, deviants still seek to redefine their behavior as normal, and in fact suggest that to believe otherwise is what is truly abnormal.

Dr. Mohler devoted his radio show today to addressing this farce. It is growing clearer every day that they day is coming when it will not be permissible for Christians to hold any deeply seated beliefs if those beliefs impact their decision making process at all. Decisions made in a church, under church authority, are now considered by some as a disqualifier for public office. I wonder how far away the day can be that anyone that dares attend a church at all will find themselves ostracized in polite society and banned from public office?