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To: DBeers
<-as a side note I have sometimes thought the homosexual disorder not always a choice (not to be confused with homosexual activity an observed behavioral characteristic that is always a choice) to be a syndrome... With the predisposition comprised of observed psychological symptoms and or behavioral characteristics -cause(s) unknown...

Your rationale and statements imply, or out right assert, that homosexual activity is a behavioral or mental disorder.

From one of my other posts: However, apparently a large segment of the homosexual practitioners do not wish it to be so classified. Additionally, neither, apparently, does the APA, having removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. If this line of reasoning is followed to its logical conclusion, then homosexual behavior [and the orientation toward such] is purely a matter of choice, not an addiction or any other kind of disorder. (Please note that I have not said that I necessarily agree with this line of thought.)

To remain germane to the current societal discussion, I fear you will have to modify your view or convince others such as the APA to modify theirs.
99 posted on 05/31/2006 7:40:15 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: Lucky Dog
I would suggest the APA necessarily must redefine their faulty assessment.

Logic requires it as the APA must necessarily premise what it defines as the norm to be what the norm observed actually is...

The APA needs to get out of the business of attempting to redefine normality with moral relative reasoning without premise in observation and instead get back to the basics of psychology, that of objectively observing and categorizing individual human behavior in relation to all human behavior and or categorizing individual human behavior in regards to whether it is self-destructive versus innocuous in relation to the individual, others, or society as a whole...

Otherwise psychology is but the practice of a humanist religion versus a "scientific" endeavor...

100 posted on 05/31/2006 9:24:56 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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