Mark Craddock, Christian Sect Doctor, Banned For Prescribing 'Gay Cure' Drug Used For Castration

[RoccoRyg]

Source: Huffington Post

An Australian doctor and member of a conservative Christian sect has been banned from practicing medicine after he prescribed a teenager a chemical castration drug to be used as a "gay cure."

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The teen went to visit the 75-year-old doctor who then prescribed him with a "gay cure": the anti-androgen therapy cyproterone acetate, sold under the brand name Cyprostat, along with five repeats, according to ninemsn. He said the doctor did not refer him to a psychologist or discuss the drug's side effects.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/mark-craddock-christian-doctor-gay-cure-prostate-cancer_n_1

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This is particularly disturbing to me, because I have a gay evangelical character in my book that takes this same drug to control the "urges."

[rox63]

1. Link doesn't work n/t

[Berlin Expat]

2. Here's a link to the same story

from the Kuwait Times.

http://news.kuwaittimes.net/2012/09/05/doctor-banned-over-gay-cure/


Disgusting doctor, to put it mildly. In my book, jail time is called for.

[frylock]

3. banned?! this fucker should be imprisoned!

[1620rock]

4. My God! to what lengths will these demented fucks go to???

[Berlin Expat]

5. You have to bear

in mind that these folks (the "pray-away-the-gay", "conversion therapy", etc.) are DEEPLY mentally disturbed.

Thusly, they employ the "ends justifies the means" mentality in order their achieve their desired "results". Frankly, a lot of 'em need to be locked up in a madhouse; they're paranoid delusionals, convinced that "teh gay" is out to get them and their families.

[antigone382]

8. Ask Alan Turing. n/t

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. Wow . . .

I thought all the 'gay cure' kooks were in the US.

[antigone382]

7. Needs a visit from the ghost of Alan Turing. n/t