BOSTON–A Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center disciplinary board is expected to render a decision soon on whether to reinstate medical privileges of a doctor fired for what the hospital considers anti-gay remarks, but for what the doctor's lawyer says was a medical opinion and an expression of faith.
Dr. Paul Church, 65, a Needham urologist and Harvard Medical School faculty member, is an expert in male sexual dysfunction and prostate problems.
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means." So said swarthy swordsman Inigo Montoya in the cult classic The Princess Bride, responding to his boss Vizzini's use of the word "inconceivable!" Vizzini was describing things that were not only conceivable, but actually happening before their very eyes.
Like the fictional Vizzini, some federal agencies have been persistently using the word "opt-out" to describe a government scheme that actually forces private ministries to opt-in to a violation of their faith. And, just recently, six federal judges have called the agencies out.
