Medicine and homophobia.It's all in a name. At least that was the case for a gay student group at New York Medical College New York Medical College is a center for graduate medical education located in Westchester County, a suburb half an hour north of New York City. This private university comprises the School of Medicine, which grants the M.D. , a private Catholic-run school in the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. . After the group changed its name from Student Help to NYMC NYMC New York Medical College NYMC New York Maritime College NYMC New York Math Circle Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in Medicine last fall, it was prohibited from meeting on campus, it was revealed in December. School officials and the student senate decided to rescind the group's charter because they believed the group wanted "to promote the lifestyle of GLBT people in conflict with the standards and values of the college" and the Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church, Christian church headed by the pope, the bishop of Rome (see papacy and Peter, Saint). Its commonest title in official use is Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. . But Joshua Sahara, president of the group before it was banned, said the notion that it was promoting a lifestyle was "a stretch of imagination when our stated goal was increasing awareness and fostering dialogue among students." |
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