The next day, Reverend Margaret Court invoked her reputation as a tennis champion to publicise her faith-based views on homosexuality. The AMA policy comes one year after the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists' similar position statement, and five years after the Australian Medical Students' Association's. Rev Court repeatedly cites the Bible as support for her homophobia, just like so many in Aceh turn to the Quran. Rev Court is not being silenced when others use their voices to counter hers -- rather, the arguments that she leveraged her fame to have printed in a major newspaper are being exposed for the personal prejudices that they are. He was the author of the Australian Medical Students' Association's original 2012 marriage equality and health policy.

Source: Huffington Post May 29, 2017 01:41 UTC