Scotland Gets Tough On Discrimination

Scotland’s National Health Service has gotten tough on "discriminatory language." They aren't quite ready to take on the "N" word, for now they're drawing the line at Mom and Dad - suggesting they are homophobic.

EDINBURGH, Scotland, February 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses and other health care professionals should avoid using the terms ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ to refer to family relationships since the terms could be offensive to homosexual couples with children, a new directive published by Scotland’s National Health Service recommends.

Issued in conjunction with the country’s leading homosexual activist organization Stonewall Scotland, the publication is entitled Fair For All - The Wider Challenge: Good LGBT Practice in the NHS. Americans for Truth reported Feb.11 on the publication’s release.

The booklet calls for a “zero-tolerance policy to discriminatory language” among Scotland’s health care system. Included in discriminatory language is the use of terms that assume a traditional family structure of mother, father and children, according to the NHS directive.

“Individual circumstances lead to varied family structures and parenting arrangements. It is important to be aware of this. When talking to children, consider using ‘parents‘, ‘carers’ or ‘guardians’ rather than ‘mother’ or ‘father‘.

Along the same lines, the directive points out, use of the terms ‘husband’, ‘wife’ and ‘marriage’ is not acceptable since such terms exclude lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Instead, health care workers should use the terms ‘partners’ and ‘next of kin’. Since ‘next of kin’ is often understood to mean nearest blood relative, however, the booklet recommends that it may be preferable to use ‘partner, close friend or close relative’ to avoid confusion.

Comments

[Darth Malice]

Good God I hope this PC crap spreads!Maybe after Scotland falls to the Muzzies it will go back to mother and father.

[Phoenix]

What? They can't say: "Who is your sanquine supplier?" "Who is your current organice reproductive unit?" "The source of your spawn seed, please?" "Are you a multi-cellular implant or truly fucked?" "Who's yo daddy?" "Caesar was from his Meemaw's womb untimely ripped."

[Phoenix]

ooops. Change that last one to: "Caesar was untimely ripped."

[Darth Malice]

How about parental units????

[Phoenix]

I've got it!

"Nice to see you exist."

[Darth Malice]

And for Gay ones"co-donators"

[seekeronos]

::rolls eyes::

[DingoAteMeBaby]

Anal Birth Parents, or ABP's is the preferred name.

[Typical Effing Moonbat]

I see no problem here.

[nell]

Any chance this will offend some traditional Muslim parents in Scotland?

[Zifnab]

If they'd just illegalized gay marriage in Scotland and revoked the medical plan of any gay couple, they wouldn't be having this problem.

[templar knight]

This is just stupid. One wonders how this could be the land of William Wallace.