“The fact I was singled out because I was wearing something that was offensive to him and denied service — that kind of makes me lose hope in humanity a little bit.” Bullen, a self-described goth, arrived at the southwest Calgary hospital last Saturday afternoon after injuring his wrist at a skateboarding competition. After he was triaged, Bullen sat down with an admitting clerk to fill out some paperwork. Bullen said he initially laughed it off when the clerk pointed out he was wearing his silver necklace “upside-down.” According to Bullen, when the clerk then told him to take off the jewellery, he replied he’d tuck it under his shirt so it was no longer visible, but declined to remove the necklace, citing his arm injury.
That’s when the clerk told him to find someone else to admit him to the hospital, according to Bullen. “The only thing I made very clear was what he just did was highly inappropriate and very unprofessional and I walked away,” Bullen said. Bullen concedes he’s raised eyebrows before with his inverted cross, which is sometimes perceived as a Satanic symbol, and felt he’d offered a good compromise offering to hide it from sight. He didn’t expect the clerk to refuse to help him get admitted to hospital, he said.
“I was so taken aback and shocked by it all,” said Bullen, who wants a personal apology from the clerk. Bullen, who was admitted by another clerk and received treatment for his wrist, said other health professionals in the hospital treated him well and apologized for what happened. In an Alberta Health Services statement, the medical authority said it takes Bullen’s complaint “very seriously” and offered apologies to the Calgarian and his family. “Alberta Health Services staff are responsible for ensuring and providing care to Albertans in a fair and equitable manner. No patients should ever be denied care. This particular complaint is taken very seriously by AHS and will be fully reviewed.”
6 comments:
The clerk should be internally charged with misconduct and made to apologise.
Most people ("Satanists" included) don't even know the origins of the inverted cross. It was actually the christian church themselves who created the stigma attached to this icon.
BITD vikings worshiped their own gods, including Thor. The symbol they wore in honour of Thor was a hammer. Many became converted, or rather partially converted, to christianity. The reason for the partial conversion was of course that they worshiped several gods and as a result they didn't see any real problem in adding one more to their pantheon.
As a result of this and as a way of worshiping two seperate religions they hedged their bets as it were. So they inverted the cross so that it was both a cross and an approximation of Thor's hammer.
The church did not like this (putting false gods before me and all that). And as such banned it and called evil, blasphemy and all kinds of other bad stuff.
End result was the inverted cross became associated with evil. Then some idiot "satanists" adopted it because of all that without even knowing its history.
That's a child, not a man.
@Gareth
Actually, the inverted cross is known as the Cross of Saint Peter or the Petrine Cross and is in no way blasphemous.
Saint Peter asked to be
crucified upside down because he felt he was unworthy die in the same manner as Jesus.
There are even pictures of Pope John Paul II sitting on a chair with the inverted cross on it, and we all know that the Pope is the most anit-christian person out there.
And if you don't believe me, look it up for yourselves.
If you don't believe what I wrote about the vikings, look that up.
Satanists don't use the inverted cross because of Saint Peter, they use it because it became associated with the worship of Thor around the tenth century. The poor sweet darlings probably don't know the difference between Thor and Satan.
If anybody's ever had to go to an ER, ALL metal (piercings, jewelry, wherever it is on your body) has to be removed to get an x-ray or scans. duh. Medical personnel shouldn't have to put up with non-compliance.
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