AMA Feels Heat Over Leader's Anti-Gay Remarks

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/021805AMA.htm

After being criticized by gay and lesbian groups, the president of the American Medical Association said Thursday his views were misrepresented in a newspaper article that quotes him defending a Roman Catholic-affiliated medical school's decision to ban a gay student group.

The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y., said Dr. John Nelson likened the ban at New York Medical College to Brigham Young University's decision to suspend four former football players accused of rape, and with the Mormon school's refusal to allow caffeinated soft drinks on campus. (story)

Joel Ginsberg, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, said Nelson's comparison criminalized and trivialized homosexuality, and prompted dozens of complaints to his organization.

[David__77]

1. As they should feel the heat.

This is as bad as a college banning MEChA or an Asian students group. Gay people exist as a definite entity.

[Maat]

2. I was so shocked that an AMA official would make such a ..

remark.

He needs to resign, or that organization will completely lose its credibility with many, many people around the world.