A visiting nurse in the UK was visiting a patient. She politely asked the patient if she would like her to pray for her. The patient responded “No thank you,’ and that was the end of the matter. The next day the patients sister found out about the prayer offer and complained. The patient herself says she was not offended but her sister feared others may be and complained to the nursing service. The nurse, Caroline Petrie, was then suspended pending an investigation for ” failing to show a commitment to equality and diversity.”
Petrie now fears for her job because she offered to pray for someone. This is so patently absurd it is hard to fathom. The real killer is that the patient was not even offended but her sister worried other might be.
So she has been preemptively suspended lest someone else worry that someone else be offended.
All this while sharia law takes hold on other parts of the UK. You simply cannot make this stuff up. Add this to the growing evidence of the suicide of the west.
February 1, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Perhaps if Sister Petrie had cut off the patient’s head in the name of Allah, that would have been sensitive and multicultural.
— Mack
February 1, 2009 at 7:13 pm
If the nurse had suggested that the old lady get euthanized, she’d probably get a promotion and a raise.
February 1, 2009 at 7:26 pm
They may try preventing her from praying, but they can do NOTHING about us praying for her. She has my prayers.
February 1, 2009 at 7:29 pm
All this while sharia law takes hold on other parts of the UK. You simply cannot make this stuff up. Add this to the growing evidence of the suicide of the west.
I wonder if this patient’s sister will be offended when shari’a law requires prayer 5 times a day, and that failure to do so is punishable by death…
Seriously, the day is coming when Christianity is just outlawed, and as soon as they can figure out how to put microchips in our brain to prevent us from thinking about religion, they’ll round us up and do it.
February 1, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Dear Luftwaffe, please come back; all is forgiven.
February 1, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Geeze!! That is absurd.
February 1, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Yeah. Really makes you think about the old biddie who called in the “prayer-gate” to begin with. If a 70-something woman is concerned that others might be offended by a prayer, what does that say about how ingrained and pervasive that “sensitivity” culture in the UK is now? I’ve met some feisty old bats, don’t get me wrong. But they’re usually pretty live-and-let-live at the end of the day, since that was the way things were done way back when. This really is sad.
February 1, 2009 at 11:33 pm
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February 2, 2009 at 12:03 am
Completely barking mad, as my Brit friends would say … they’ve gone absobloodylutely bonkers, a nation of nutters. Martyrs of England and Wales, pray for them!
February 2, 2009 at 4:11 am
Any society that is offended by an act of kindness is a sick society.
February 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Mike – not even ACTUALLY offended…. just POTENTIALLY offended!
How about somebody respect Ms. Petrie’s equality and diversity?
February 4, 2009 at 5:26 am
nightfly – You think respecting diversity means respecting diversity?! … Silly you!