MELBOURNE, Australia, December 15, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – An Australian doctor of 15 years has had his license suspended indefinitely after a tribunal concluded that his social media posts showed “clear conservative leanings,” with “the potential for individuals to take posts personally that reference members of the LGBQTI+ community.”
In 2019, the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) launched an investigation into the Evangelical Christian Dr. Jereth Kok after receiving two anonymous complaints about social media posts he had shared within the last ten years. In an interview with Family Voice Australia, Kok described the moment he found out that an investigation into his conduct had been opened: “One Friday afternoon last year, while consulting with patients, I was suddenly given notice that I was going to be summarily removed from practice to protect the ‘public interest’.”
According to Kok, in the nine months prior to receiving notice of his removal, the MBA had quietly been trawling through his content on the internet, looking for material which he had written that could implicate him in medical misconduct, saying the “Board ultimately hired a private investigator to run a dragnet over the internet for material written by me.”
Things began to move quickly after Kok received his
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