Posted on 11/05/2013 3:55:20 PM PST by ReformationFan
After a national backlash from social conservatives, the American Psychiatric Association (ASA) has dropped its designation of pedophilia as a “sexual orientation.”
In May, the APA released the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). In this document, the first new edition in 10 years, the APA described pedophilia as a sexual “orientation.”
The classification went largely unnoticed until last month, when the NeonTommy blog of the Annenberg Digital News at the University of Southern California published a blog post critical of the terminology.
Social conservatives said calling pedophilia an “orientation” was a step towards normalizing pedophiliac behavior.
But within days, the APA changed the classification, noting in a press release “'Sexual orientation' is not a term used in the diagnostic criteria for pedophilic disorder and its use in the DSM-5 text discussion is an error and should read 'sexual interest.’”
The APA said the unwelcome attention from conservative Christians helped them turn out a more precise and accurate guide.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
“The PC crowd says pedophilia/pederasty has nothing to do with homosexuality”
Reminds me of that scene in “The Wizard of Oz” when he says “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
The terroristic threats of homosexual activists got homosexuality taken off the DSM in the first place.
Actually pedophilia has nothing to do with it...but pederasty has everything to do with it.
They try to confuse the two terms.
The cards are on the table.
We all know what they WANT, even if they backed away under public pressure.
From "The Gay Revolutionary." It was quoted on the congressional floor.
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