Doctor stays on human rights board

Doctor stays on human rights board

Victoria’s deputy chief psychiatrist will remain on the board of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) after publicly asserting same-sex marriage would affect “the future health of the nation”.

A spokesman for Victoria’s Attorney-General Robert Clark said the deputy chief psychiatrist, Professor Kuruvilla George, was entitled to his views and would remain on the VEOHRC board.

George was one of 150 medical professionals to sign a Senate inquiry submission opposed to same-sex marriage.

“Dr George, like all other citizens, has the right to freedom of expression and is entitled to take part as an individual citizen in public debate on national political issues,” the spokesman said.

Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby co-convenor Anna Brown told the Star Observer she was deeply concerned about the Attorney-General’s decision and it was “fundamentally inappropriate” for a VEOHRC board member to advocate discriminatory views against same-sex attracted people.

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4 responses to “Doctor stays on human rights board”

  1. The Nazi Doctors were Heterosexual Supremacist. They used pseudo-science to gas thousands of same-sex attracted people. My partner is a hard working doctor, and we are both stunned to see the last Great Wall to protect us from discrimination, The Equal Opportunity Act, being demolished by Robert Clark, the Victorian Attorney General. We know from the Marriage Equality Enquiry, same-sex attracted people are more likely to be sent to battle, as they are not counted as married. So if we are good enough to take a bullet for Australia, the Liberal/National Party should be good enough to sack Robert Clark and send his hate to history.

  2. I thought we had seen the last of this after the 11WW.
    Can you imagine the screaming if they had done this against black people ore Jews?
    It’s a sad, sad thing to see this in Australia, when the same people are criticizing the rest of the world for breaching human-right laws.
    Where is the federal government? I don’t see any comments ore any propitiate reaction from aider side of politics.
    I’m not an Australian…..and I’m sick of this “Lucky-Country” thing. I don’t feel that lucky as a gay-person when I moved down here from Norway.

  3. I don’t care what he thinks of marriage, but I do care about using silly studies to say married couples will have higher HIV and are bad for children. Even the AMA has run a million miles from that rubbish. It is a poor reflection on the Liberal Pary, especially given the Attorney General told parliament homosexuality is sick disease, and many workplace protections were ripped out of the Equal Opportunity Act for same-sex attracted people. There is a nasty pattern of Hate Thy Neighbour, about the way the Leberal and National Party are doing business in Victoria.