New martyr for Christian Right: British Christian physician who linked gays to paedophilia fired as drug advisor; now claiming religious persecution

Dr. Raabe: Best in show?

A British Christian doctor who co-wrote a paper linking gays to paedophilia has been fired as a government drug advisor.
     Dr. Hans-Christian Raabe claimed he had been “sacrificed on the altar of political correctness” but the Home Office said he had been fired because he failed to mention the controversial work in interviews.
     The Home Office said he was asked in interviews for the post whether there was anything about his professional or personal history that could cause embarrassment to the government or the advisory panel and did not mention the work.
     Dr Raabe is a medical co-ordinator of the Council for Health and Wholeness (CHW), a Christian organisation based within the Maranatha Community.
     In briefing documents from 2005 written by Dr Raabe for the CHW, homosexuality is described as “destructive” and is associated with disease and drug use.
     Another paper, co-authored by Dr Raabe, claimed: “...it is of grave concern that there is a disproportionately greater number of homosexuals among paedophiles and an overlap between the gay movement and the movement to make paedophilia acceptable.”
     Dr Raabe told the Daily Mail he had "been discriminated against because of my opinions and beliefs which are in keeping with the teaching of the major Churches,"adding “My appointment has been revoked based on the wrong perception that I could potentially discriminate against gay people..."
(Pink News)