[C19fan]

I guess Mr. Siegel is too young to remember that in the Soviet Union they threw dissidents in psychiatric hospitals for holding anti-Marxist views. You see Marxism was a science so you were obviously irrational and mentally ill if you disagreed with Marx. Just reading the summary of the so called paper it sounds just as scientific as Marx's analysis.

[Lx]

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Is that what Hustler is going by these days?

[Gamecock]

***Journal of Sexual Medicine***

Not that they would have any bias.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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re-education camps for christians ?

nope. never.

not in obama’s america ...

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[Fred Hayek]

Meanwhile, somewhere in Hell, Yuri Andropov is laughing.

[Darksheare]

“Scientists” insist that people who think entering an exit is wrong are crazy?

[liberalism is suicide]

The inmates have escaped from the asylum and are now running it.

[Nervous Tick]

>> those who wantonly fear gay people that are being labeled as mentally ill

Who fears them?

I’ll admit I detest their behavior — and I view their condition as a brokenness — a disease — in need of healing.

And I despise the fascist militant wing that insists I accept tham as normal.

But *fear* them? Nah.

[nhwingut]

This is a South Park episode in the making.

[Little Pig]

Actual phobias *are* mental problems. However, what the MSM calls “homophobia” is anything but an actual phobia. People who object to sodomy (and the omnipresent insistence that all people accept and celebrate it) aren’t exhibiting an “unreasonable fear” of that behavior.

Conversely, the leftist knee-jerk reaction to anything having to do with firearms *is* edging into “unreasonable fear” territory, and “hoplophobe” ought to become a much more prevalent accusation leveled against such people.

Another angle to take would be to ask what exactly is so bad about having a phobia? Are libs that insensitive towards people with actual mental problems that they use such a condition as a derogatory term for people who don’t like the things the libs do?

[CygnusXI]

What’s a homophobe?

I know a few heterophobes.. Im assuming the articles point apply to them as well?

[jwalsh07]

Iow’s if you find feces on your unit a bit tacky you can not own a gun.

[conejo99]

Wow. “ above average levels of ... hyper-masculinity”, is that like hyper hyper masculinity? Is that bad?

[LambSlave]

ust 42 years ago, homosexuality was considered a diagnosable mental illness. In an ironic twist, it is now those who wantonly fear gay people that are being labeled as mentally ill, verifying as has long been suspected that psychology and psychiatry are political tools that have little basis in science or the scientific process.

[jcon40]

“Those who wantonly fear gay people that are being labeled as mentally ill. “

Maybe if you’re the new guy in prison I could buy this rubbbish

[MNJohnnie]

Can you imagine the hysteria if they did a study on:

“Is Homosexuality a mental disorder?”.

[BRL]

So does this mean that if you will not engage in homo sex you are mentally ill?

[Wallace T.]

Irrespective of the author's age, we cannot presume he is ignorant of the Communist use of mental illness diagnoses to imprison dissidents. Rather, he probably approves of the procedures used in the era of Khrushchev and Brezhnev. (Stalin did not bother with this; he just imprisoned or execute his enemies, real or imagined.)

In another matter, climate change "scientists" have petitioned the Obama Administration to prosecute climate change "deniers" under the RICO statutes.

The Left has abandoned their concern about civil liberties, aside from the "rights" to fornicate with whomever one wishes, or to abuse controlled substances. And people, liberals, the RINO establishment, and Beltway "conservative poseurs" alike, wonder why Trump is doing so well in the polls.

[duffee]

Homophobia is not really a phobia or illness, it’s a manufactured phrase and condition to enforce political correctness and provide a venue of attack on those who don’t just go along and who have a fiber of moral conviction about decadence. Making it a mental illness takes it further and allows persecution including what will become the denial and confiscation of firearms because “they” are mentally ill. In the future a firearm purchaser may be required to perform a public homosexual act to prove they’re not a homophobe and are therefore sane.

[Ohioan]

"wantonly fear" homosexuals? (Calling them "gay," a misuse of English, might of course indicate a mental aberration.)

It is not "fear" of the unfortunates, which makes us attack the obvious misuse of language to undermine the most basic of all social institutions, the sanctification of human mating and procreation. Anyone who feels a need to misrepresent the issue, has either a serious mental derangement, or a serious lack of moral compass.

[ctdonath2]

“those who wantonly fear”

Yeah, those who wantonly fear anything may very well have a mental problem.
Slapping “-phobic” on anyone who you have a sensible & common disagreement with is not trying to politely “celebrate difference” et al, it’s attempting to justify destroying any variants in views.

Let me suggest that if someone slaps “-phobic” as a label on a sociopolitical opponent, they’re projecting.

Occurs to me that the mindset explains the “global climate change OMGWTFBBQ” attitude: inability to deal with differences. Strange that those who “celebrate diversity” are so viciously against it.

Yes, I think there’s something special about a couple being capable of creating a new human - it’s not hateful to treat such pairings different from other pairings innately incapable of procreation (not just that it’s not going to happen because of choice or malfunction, but because it’s utterly impossible). Nothing “-phobic” about it. What _is_ “-phobic” is those who react to such a view with a desire to justify viciously (even violently) demeaning, incarcerating, and medically altering anyone who holds such a view.