• Christian nurse suspended for offering prayer to patient

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This is from Richard Littlejohn of the Daily Mail:

Nurse Caroline Petrie has been suspended and could even be struck off. What was her offence? Did she turn up drunk? Did she dispense the wrong medicine or forget to empty a bedpan? Was she knocking out prescription drugs to the local pusher?

Perhaps she was guilty of neglect, of deliberate cruelty, or of practising a bit of freelance euthanasia.

No. Her ‘crime’ was to offer to say a prayer for one old lady on the ward. It’s what we used to call an act of Christian charity.

But that was enough to bring her to the attention of the ‘diversity’ nazis at the North Somerset Primary Care Trust.

The next day she got a call from her ‘co-ordinator’ telling her not to report for work and informing her that her disgraceful behaviour was the subject of a disciplinary hearing.

Mrs Petrie, a committed Christian since she was aged ten when her mother died of breast cancer, routinely offers to pray for her patients’ speedy recovery. Many of them find it a great comfort.

In this case, 79-year-old May Phippen said: thanks, but no thanks. No offence given or taken. But when Mrs Phippen mentioned it to another nurse, all hell broke loose.

Mrs Petrie had previously been warned about her conduct after she asked a male patient if he would like a prayer card. He thought nothing of it, but his ‘carer’ threw a wobbly and reported her to hospital authorities. [emphasis added]

Petrie (what an appropriate name for a nurse) was in the wrong, offering prayer after being instructed not to do so. However, as Littlejohn says:

Just imagine how they would have reacted had Mrs Petrie been a Muslim offering to pray to Allah for a patient’s recovery. Anyone who objected would be accused of a ‘hate crime’ and dumped in a skip at the back of the mortuary.

Here’s the blind hypocrisy:

Administrator Alison Withers wrote to her [Petrie]: ‘As a nurse you are required to uphold the reputation of your profession. Your NMC (Nursing Midwifery Council) code states that “you must demonstrate a personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity”, and “you must not use your professional status to promote causes that are not related to health”.’

Some points for you to ponder:

• How has Petrie failed to demonstrate a “commitment to equality and diversity”? If she’d refused to treat a Satanist I’d buy that one, but making a simple offer of prayer is not failing to demonstrate a “commitment to equality and diversity”. Unless of course you are the PC Police and the usual rules of logic don’t apply
• One could make a case for saying that Petrie’s employer is failing to demonstrate a “commitment to equality and diversity” because offering prayer is a recognised part of christianity
• Note also the assumption that Petrie is attempting to promote a cause. Might she be offering simple solace?
• Note that the patient wasn’t upset by the offer of prayer, i.e. this is all about political correctness and nothing to do with harm to the patient, not even the fabled “emotional harm”
• Petrie was accused by another nurse: political correctness fosters an environment of mistrust and suspicion. This is also known as divide-and-conquer and is a characteristic of totalitarianism

As I said in an earlier post:

…when a marae had a model canoe stolen, one of the tribal elders could go on the radio and say “You had better return that canoe, because my ancestors are strong and they will punish you” without any public objections. He could say those things because any religion except Christianity, the root of Western culture, is acceptable (yes, Maori “spirituality” is a religion, a mixture of ancestor worship and animism). If a pastor went on the radio after the burglary of a church and said “You had better return our property, because our God is strong and he will punish you” everyone, including Helen Clark, would have said that he was a religious bigot and full of superstition. The leftist media, which is practically all media, would have jumped on the bandwagon with glee. The liberal left preach tolerance but in fact they only tolerate what they consider to be acceptable, which is pretty much anything apart from traditional Western and Christian values. [emphasis added]

I suggest that you click on the link above, as that post explains why we are experiencing this kind of madness.

Petrie was in the wrong when she offered prayer after being instructed to not do so, but I find it very hard to imagine a non-christian who offered prayer getting into this much trouble. Everyone would be walking on eggshells in such a case, stiff with fear at the thought of the PC Police saying that thay had failed to demonstrate a “commitment to equality and diversity”.

All together now, say after me in a loud voice: “DOUBLE STANDARD“.

What do you think about this situation?

Click here for a related post by Samuel Dennis.

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