>>But, I’ll sally forth anyway, and try to say something informed about the serial DSM abominations
An informed FReeper would know the psychiatry community redefined homosexuality away from being a mental illness by an edit in DSM-II. This should be enough for anyone to understand that DSM abominations exist. Whether you are a Christian or a serious atheist Darwinist, it is obvious to anyone that homosexuality is an abnormal mental issue.
It’s fairly obvious that this redefinition was made for political reasons.
The reply to this would be that the earlier definition of homosexuality as mental illness was also based on non-medical criteria.
To which an unbiased outside observer, perhaps from Vulcan, would note that neither definition is based on scientific or medical criteria. And that politics should have no standing in medicine or science.