http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2011/09/29/breaking-anti-gay-n-c-senator-forrester-falsifies-credentials-and-an-open-letter-to-the-lawmaker/NOTE FROM PAM: It’s sad that a lawmaker, namely North Carolina State Senator James Forrester, is so blinded by ignorance and bigotry that he embarrasses himself — and his cause (to amend the state’s constitution so that NC recognizes the “only domestic legal union” in the state as a marriage between a man and a woman). He went on the air with Mike Signorile, who asked Forrester to cite his “facts” – something mainstream media almost always fails to do with these bigots — and lo and behold, the lawmaker scrambled and came up with a goose egg.
Equality supporter Scott Rose has written an open letter to the Senator, and exposes the fact that Forrester, also a physician, lied repeatedly during that broadcast — and is also peddling false credentials about his qualifications. The Blend has the correspondence with the American College of Preventive Medicine, where Forrester claims to be a Fellow. Let’s just say the ACPM was not happy to hear what the lawmaker is pimping about himself.
Dear Senator Forrester:
As a regular contributor to the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism, I write to you — (while simultaneously addressing voters in North Carolina) — as a duty of conscience.
You have proposed an amendment to the Constitution of North Carolina that, if approved by anti-gay voters, would write anti-gay discrimination into the Constitution. Your proposed amendment presents a textbook example of what political scientists refer to as ”the tyranny of the majority.” Through a separation of powers, most democratic societies successfully avoid being afflicted by a tyranny of the majority. When you speak contemptuously of judges who rule that existing laws against LGBT equality are discriminatory, you are expressing open disdain for the separation of powers in our political system. What you are saying is “I want a tyranny of the majority, so we can treat gay people as second-class citizens, and I don’t care what rational criticism anybody might make of it.”
I was dismayed recently to hear your radio interview with Mike Signorile. There is a strong appearance that although you are a licensed physician, you intentionally falsify health care information and health care statistics in a political context in order fraudulently to demonize LGBT human beings and to motivate anti-gay bigots to strengthen the currently pertaining sexual orientation apartheid in our society. Your behavior in that runs counter to medical ethics. And speaking of medical ethics, your online bios claim that you are a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, but today, ACPM officials told me that you are not a member, still less a Fellow, which is their highest level of distinction, and that they would be asking you to remove your phony claim from the internet. Apparently, your lack of integrity in talking dishonestly about gay human beings extends to claims you make about your professional medical associations. I sent an e-mail to your Senate address james.forrester@ncleg.net giving you a chance to explain yourself, but you didn’t even give me the courtesy of a reply.
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