[exDemMom]

I consistently arrive at the same conclusion: homosexuality is a mental illness.

It used to be considered one, and was as much the subject of academic research as any other mental illness. I wonder what has happened, that over the past few decades, the idea that people who are mentally ill in a sexuality related matter should be treated as if they are completely normal. They are not being helped like that, any more than a schizophrenic would be helped by refusing to treat the illness on the pretext that delusions are a subset of normal behavior.

Since research into the causes of sexuality-based mental illness continues, research into treatments will follow. Once these illnesses can be treated, maybe some of these absurdities (like legalizing "gay marriage", whatever that is) will disappear?

[Petrosius]

Since research into the causes of sexuality-based mental illness continues, research into treatments will follow. Once these illnesses can be treated, maybe some of these absurdities (like legalizing "gay marriage", whatever that is) will disappear?

Except there is a growing movement to make such treatment illegal.

[NorthMountain]

I wonder what has happened

What happened is that militant sodomites browbeat the Psychological/Psychiatric establishment into redefining homosexual desire and behavior as not a mental illness.

[cloudmountain]

Pope Benedict named the core problem: relative morality.

[Charles Martel]

I wonder what has happened, that over the past few decades, the idea that people who are mentally ill in a sexuality related matter should be treated as if they are completely normal.

Part of what happened is that the American Psychiatric Association’s Board of Trustees - the group that revises and approves the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, was gradually infiltrated by homosexuals. Once they had the votes, they made the part of the DSM that offended them simply go away.

[don-o]

Since research into the causes of sexuality-based mental illness continues, research into treatments will follow. Once these illnesses can be treated, maybe some of these absurdities (like legalizing "gay marriage", whatever that is) will disappear?

I don't thin so. The seedbed which has grown these noxious weeds was prepared over many many years. And a critical mass of minds have been corrupted.

As evidence, I direct us to the parents' recent uproar in Charlotte over a Catholic nun speaking on Catholic "theology of the body" and cause / effect studies on environment and behavior. My takeaway was that Sister touched nerves among a segment of the parents and rather than deal with her information, the long knives came out.

[MDLION]

“exDemMom: Once these illnesses can be treated, maybe some of these absurdities (like legalizing “gay marriage”, whatever that is) will disappear?”

That’s why another one of their burgeoning projects is making reparative therapy illegal, so people won’t discover what is going on with the homosexual orientation. They’ve already succeeded in California and New Jersey (Thanks Christi !).

To find out what is actually going on with the homosexual orientation, I point anyone interested toward the work of Dr. Joseph Nicolosi.