Pasadena’s $250,000 Health Director Says Accepting Gay People An Idea ‘From The Pits Of Hell’

Pasadena is a beautiful city on the south west coast of California. A city of just 137,000 people nestled in a 23 square mile radius, the “City of Roses” is just an hour’s drive to the shore. It’s home to the annual Tournament of Roses Parade — which is officially housed in former home of the founder of Wrigley’s chewing gum. Pasadena is also home to the Rose Bowl football game, the California Institute of Technology, the first-ever Busch Gardens, and Dr. Eric Walsh. 

Dr. Eric Walsh is Pasadena’s public health director, and has an impressive résumé. He reportedly makes about $250,500 a year, including benefits. That’s almost two dollars for every resident of Pasadena.

Dr. Walsh has come under fire recently for his recordings that are freely available on YouTube, that document his particular distaste for gay people.

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Dr. Walsh, when he’s not attending to the City of Pasadena’s public health issues, is attending to one of the city of Pasadena’s Seventh-day Adventist congregations.

“In our public school system they began to teach moral relativism,” Dr. Walsh reportedly has told his congregation. “They began to teach that there really is no absolute right or wrong. It’s more a matter of what you think or what you accept. And (according to that doctrine) if two adults agree to do something, it’s not wrong because they are both consenting adults. That is doctrine from the pits of hell. What makes something right is not based on man, it is based on God.”

He has also, according to WeHoVille.com, “attacked the American Psychiatric Association’s decision in 1973 to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness, saying those who supported it were ‘raised up by the (devil).'”

WeHoVille reports that Walsh “has spoken out against the theory of evolution, accusing those who teach it of doing ‘the devil’s handiwork.’

“I want you to understand that evolution is a religion created by Satan,” he has said.

It’s not just gay rights advocates and supporters of the scientific theory of evolution who Walsh opposes. He also has attacked the Walt Disney Co., calling it a “dark empire,” and he has railed against the Harry Potter books and movies, saying they are witchcraft.

Claiming that “Dr. Walsh is either a hypocrite on the pulpit or a phony on the job,” Frank C. Girardot, a senior editor at the Pasadena Star-News writes that Dr. Walsh’s “beliefs disqualify him from being head of Public Health Department.”

Here’s some of what he believes:

• Oprah Winfrey is harboring the spirit of the anti-Christ;

• The prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, was influenced by Satan;

• The devil set up Catholicism;

• Acceptance of homosexuals is a satanic ploy to destroy America;

• Rapper Jay Z is a disciple of Satan;

• Single mothers are ruining their children;

• Disney movies, which are loaded with violence, sex and magic, are a satanic ploy to split up families;

• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is a “satanic belief”;

• The distribution of condoms to a public in need leads to higher AIDS rates;

• The pope is the anti-Christ.

In what is certain to become the next nation-wide drama and First Amendment court case that will draw the radical religious right like a moth to a flame, last night Dr. Walsh was placed on temporary paid administrative leave. Get set for the claims that homosexuality and religion cannot co-exist. Get set for the religious right enshrining Dr. Walsh as a hero who should not be fired for his personal beliefs. And get set for a tsunami of charges of “gay hate” and “liberal intolerance.” 

Feel free to spend the next hour of your life listening to one of Dr. Walsh’s sermons: