The UK Health Advisor Who Thinks Gay People Are Destructive and Unhealthy
Meet Dr. Hans-Christian Raabe, a doctor in the United Kingdom who was just named to a prominent government advisory committee. Generally speaking, health professionals being appointed to government boards wouldn't attract all that much attention. But then again, most health professionals don't have views on homosexuality like Dr. Raabe.Dr. Raabe is a member of a religious movement that believes homosexuality is destructive and unhealthy, and that gay people can be cured. He's coordinator of a group known as the Council for Health and Wholeness (CHW), which believes in a host of controversial (and not terribly scientifically sound) theories about homosexuality. Among the more frightening nuggets?
"The media and the gay movement portray the homosexual lifestyle as happy, healthy and fulfilled. However, the homosexual lifestyle is associated with a large number of very serious physical and emotional health consequences," says a CHW document authored by Dr. Raabe himself.
And there's plenty more.
In another document, Dr. Raabe notes: "A high proportion of homosexual men engage in a destructive lifestyle."
And then comes the real kicker. This professional, who now sits on a prominent UK advisory board, believes that there's a tie between homosexuality and pedophilia. In a paper that Dr. Raabe co-authored, the medicine man describes gay people as having a penchant for abusing children.
"It is of grave concern that there is a disproportionately greater number of homosexuals among pedophiles and an overlap between the gay movement and the movement to make pedophilia acceptable," Dr. Raabe noted in the piece.
So Dr. Raabe believes homosexuality can be cured. He believes that LGBT people are destructive. He believes that most pedophiles are gay. And for all of that, he's rewarded by the UK government with a plum position on a health advisory board. Say what?
"It is an absolute outrage that Theresa May [Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities] has appointed someone with such horrific opinions to this senior role advising the Tory-led government," said Bridget Phillipson, a Member of Parliament from the Labour Party. “Her decision raises serious questions about judgement and whether she is fulfilling her role as minister for equalities effectively.”
You could say that again. Dr. Raabe, for his part, insists that his views on homosexuality won't impact his ability to serve on this governmental health board. "This is an appointment regarding drug policy and what views I may or may not have on homosexuality are irrelevant," he says.
Hardly. In fact, one could argue that Dr. Raabe's complete abdication of sound science and fact in favor of socially conservative religious principles that dictate his views on homosexuality should be red flag number one that this person is ill-qualified for a job advising government on health policy. Just what were government officials thinking?
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