Bain shouldn't have taken that job

Dear Editor,

I am compelled to weigh in on the discussion about UWI's separation of Professor Brendan Bain from a sensitive job position. The media might have muddled the issue in its all too frequent rush to satisfy the perceived public craving for sensational news and commentary. This couldn't have happened if his contract did not have a clause supporting it. So, the media, especially, must discharge its public information role responsibly, in giving the matter exposure.

The nature of the job with CHART required him not to make members of the gay community feel, in any way, judged, or opposed, by him. I think, at the very least, it was an error of judgement for him to have taken the job, knowing the obligations imposed on him by his spiritual conviction -- long-standing Christian Brethren fundamentalism.

The action in no way detracts from his standing in academia or the medical profession and scientific community as some have misused their privileged access to the media to infer. "I was young, but now I'm old and I have never seen the righteous forsaken [by God]". That is why Christians are "called out". "Come out from among them and be separate".

H W Dennis

Mona

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Bain shouldn't have taken that job

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