Doctor Muhammad Siddiq, a general practioner of thirty years plus, sent off a letter to the editor of Pulse , a medical journal for GPs from across the pond, saying that gay patients deserve neither help nor pity, but that they do need " the stick of the law to put them on the right path ." " There is punishment and a fine if you throw rubbish or filth in the streets ," he went on, and that how gays " are causing the spread of disease with their irresponsible behavior ." When he was first questioned about it, he said he had written it because he was overly stressed about other non-related stuff. Well, that explanation didn't really fly so much with the GMC, General Medical Council over there. So later on he said it was just a hoax, passing the buck off to his apparently unpredictable son, who had done this without his even knowing about it. Except that he the good doctor himself had signed the thing. Okay, there's a dilemma. Let's see, oh yeah...