Posted on 11/25/2008 6:53:48 AM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan
The change in the DSM only proved that there a lot of psychiatrists who are homosexuals.
After reading this, I’m wondering how many in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) are gay.
HA Ping.
Good summary of the history. Satinover's book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth is a very interesting read.
The puddingmouth patrol rides again!
...and our society has gone down hill ever since.
Eh, and astronomy books don’t have epicycles or Martian canals any more, either. Your point?
The study that will never allowed to be done:
what is the correlation between childhood sexual abuse and adulthood homosexuality?
Normal? Yeah Right, I've seen pictures and video from The Folsom Street Fair.
Disgusting, perverted & deviant is not normal for most Americans. ..for now anyway.
Would anyone bother emailing Margret Hoover, a republican strategist, who appears on Bill O’Reilly from time to time? She apparently thinks ‘her’ generation “gets it” and that homosexual marriage (sounds so twisted and backwards) is the civil rights issue of our day.
You can discuss whether homosexuality causes harm to themselves or others. Apparently gays can function normally in other areas of life. Clearly homosexuality, in the biological area, isn’t “normal” because it doesn’t allow for reproduction.
It’s shameful that for political reasons homosexuality was reclassified by the psychiatric community.
I take exception to that. I’m close to some gay people whom I know were not sexually abused (one being my sibling). While I certainly am no fan of the uber-queer agenda, nor will they get one inkling of support from me for Prop. 8, I think it’s pretty harsh to conclude one is homosexual because of sexual abuse.
The decision to remove homosexuality from the DSM had nothing to do with scientific proof. It was pure politics. It was a decision putting us on the road to the Emperor’s New Clothes world we are now living in.
Sex and sexual attraction have an obvious biological purpose. Same sex attraction is an obvious dysfunction. They cannot perform the procreative act with each other. They have to come up with imitations, some ridiculous, some disgusting.
It is as if a person had an irresistible urge to eat by stuffing his food in his ear. Except that, in that case, people wouldn’t be afraid to say it is a dysfunction and try to cure it. I guess if enough ear-eaters decided to organize and intimidate people, that could change.
Notice I didn’t say the correlation was 1.0.
But I’d be willing to bet that it’s higher than that of the total population group.
It wasn’t political motivation on the part of the APA, it was simple commercial considerations.
Homosexuals are a large customer base for the head shrinkers, offending those who pay the rent is just bad business.
My father is a psychiatrist and would agree with you. In fact, he has stated to me that a high number of psychiatrist, psychologists and mental health workers are, themselves, mentally disordered. It is a “physician, heal thyself” problem. I have also had friends who had mental issues and went into the mental health profession hoping to find what was wrong with them and how they could fix their lives. I also believe that is the same with many who go into the priesthood or religious life. They realize something is not right in their life and are in search of a cure. I know what I have stated will offend some and is not based on statistics but rather experience, still I am not the only one that has noted this.
I'd say *all* disgusting.
Psychiatry has never proven anything at all...................
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