Letter Degrade -- UA anesthesiology prof under fire for past anti-gay comments [View all]

[TexasTowelie]

It turns out that publicly dismissing the LGBT community as a collection of "perverts" and "degenerates" might not be great for your professional career.

Or at least that's what Dr. Randal Dull, an internationally recognized anesthesiologist who joined the UA College of Medicine's Department of Anesthesiology last summer, is learning. Dull has become the target of protests after an anti-gay letter he penned more than a decade ago to the local newspaper in Park City, Utah, resurfaced and was circulated online.

Dull's letter bashed The Park Record for running a story about a local LGBTQ-friendly lounge. Referring to the gay community as "perverts" and "degenerates," Dull wrote that elected officials failed to maintain "family values" within the city by allowing the lounge to exist on Main Street.

"Good people have allowed themselves to be deceived by the brainwashing use of words like 'tolerance' and 'diversity'—which are nothing more than polite ways of asking us to abandon our principles," he wrote. "Those who wish to undermine the Christian heritage of our country do so to destroy the only real resistance to this open promotion of perversion and radical liberalism."

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