Suicidal lesbian Marine Corps vet seeks help, gets Jesus instead

[Ian David]

Esther Garatie is a hero to our nation, serving in the Marine Corps in war-time. She also happens to be a lesbian.

But that shouldn’t matter. Not when she checks into a Dallas-area VA hospital for treatment for severe depression – including suicidal thoughts. She wanted help, and was brave enough to actually ask for it.

She had been battling PTSD-like symptoms before she even received her Honorable Discharge. Rather than help, an evangelical Christian nurse took it upon herself to preach about Esther’s life of sin. Esther left the VA Hospital absolutely determined to kill herself because of this.

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She continually pointed at her office door, the one all I wanted to do was run out of, and she said, “When you walk out this door, you need to pray and ask God for whatever his purpose is for your life, for him to show you, and bring you to his light.” Ironically, this is something close to what I have prayed for every single day, since I left the military service, and had just prayed for that morning. I had been praying for whatever God’s will was for my life, for him to show me the way and use my life to best service Him and His message. This is the moment when she told me that “…maybe God’s plan for your life is to choose to return to the light, and then you could ‘help’ your friends, who are still in darkness and going to Hell, back to the light. When I started practicing medicine there was actually a diagnosis for homosexuality, but they’ve gotten rid of that now, since Obama.”

Aside from being extremely offensive, the nurse’s statement doesn’t even make sense. Unless she is both very old and very young at the same time. Homosexuality has not been ‘treated’ by psychologists in several decades. The repeal of DADT is months old… What a bizarre thing to lie about in order to take a pot-shot at the Commander In Chief.



More:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/rockbeyondbelief/2011/11/06/suicidal-lesbian-marine-corps-vet-seeks-help-gets-jesus-instead/

She needs to be FIRED. Sign the petition that Esther’s friend started. Every signature sends an email to this Nurse’s bosses (and their bosses) calling for the Firing of Nurse Pandithurai.
http://www.change.org/petitions/dallas-va-medical-center-fire-homophobic-nurse-for-harassing-lesbian-marine-veteran/

[Deep13]

1. done

might want to X-post on GLBT

[Ian David]

2. Already did that. And thanks! n/t

[RebelOne]

3. Signed. n/t

[tiddlywinks]

4. god's will

there is no "god's will" and i would have been shouting that from my hospital bed.

[NMMNG]

5. Done

It makes me sick how many people still consider it acceptable to push their religious bigotry onto people in the course of their jobs. :puke:

[Warpy]

6. The consensus on my knitting board

is she should avoid knitters if she doesn't want to look like a porcupine with all the needles stabbed into her.

Discipline won't do it because those people are just like tweakers, they'll do it again as soon as you turn your back on them.

She needs to have her license lifted for this one. She might have killed Garatie.

Nobody needs to face this kind of bullshit from any health care professional.