Posted on 11/05/2013 3:55:20 PM PST by ReformationFan
After a national backlash from social conservatives, the American Psychiatric Association (ASA) has dropped its designation of pedophilia as a “sexual orientation.”
In May, the APA released the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). In this document, the first new edition in 10 years, the APA described pedophilia as a sexual “orientation.”
The classification went largely unnoticed until last month, when the NeonTommy blog of the Annenberg Digital News at the University of Southern California published a blog post critical of the terminology.
Social conservatives said calling pedophilia an “orientation” was a step towards normalizing pedophiliac behavior.
But within days, the APA changed the classification, noting in a press release “'Sexual orientation' is not a term used in the diagnostic criteria for pedophilic disorder and its use in the DSM-5 text discussion is an error and should read 'sexual interest.’”
The APA said the unwelcome attention from conservative Christians helped them turn out a more precise and accurate guide.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
However, a gutsy gospel would be able to break through to some of them. Ultimately it’s a matter of are they fundamentally willing to grasp the gospel promise. But this has to be a gutsy promise to be credible. Our modern wimpy polite churchy gospels are going to get rejected outright.
That is a terribly unfair interpretation of the Fable of Pandora. What was the last thing to come out of the box?
Classifying disease-ridden, boy-raping, whackjobs as a "sexual orientation" was also "an error"
To some people rape is just an intense expression of sexual expression.
When you corrupt the innocence of children they will be no civility, no decency, no moral values and it will be the fall of man. The Gay community open that door and now all the deviants wants special rights...The righteous people will be forbidden by the law of evil men to stop them.
Damn, I am beginning to sound prophetic
It’s a step in the right direction. Now they need to re-classify homosexuality as a mental disorder, as it was prior to 1973.
And another recruitment milestone for liberals... sticking it with a middle finger to God and country, “makes me proud”
The tread-down of the “righteous” will last as long as the “righteous” fail to call on the full power of God.
Satan has almost no real power. He has con games and lies and doom-and-gloom talk. He’s a pip squeak, a runt, before God. And he knows it. It’s people who choose to let him rule or to let God rule in their hearts.
A number of faggots work for the APA. This is not a mistake.
Homosexuality is a twisting of what would be a very beautiful set of gospel virtues. This issue is almost beyond the ken of psychology, unless it is a psychology that allows for a full spirituality concomitantly with it. Which is why psychology has seen mediocre results. It depends on whatever spirituality is available “in the wild” and that is highly variable. A focused spiritual approach could indeed cure willing sufferers.
Pedophiles should be executed. As should their enablers. No further discussion necessary.
Sure. Right.
They just got a little ahead of themselves...
B4UACT is s group that has been active in the APA for awhile. Their whole purpose is to legalize pedophilia. This is their work, no mistake.
Yup, and it'll be back in 6 months to a year, possibly in a slightly different format. The psychotic APA will not stop.
“The psychotic APA will not stop.”
Oh-oh. If they are psychotic, who will diagnose and treat them?
Save us from the amoral shrinks. Like robbery and murder are a “behavioral orientation.”
These folks can’t lie nearly as well as obama.
You don’t say its a mistake, you fools! Just keep with the original story and totally ruin what little respect the APA still has on these issues.
Communists want to rob us out of anything, starting at a child age.
The PC crowd says pedophilia/pederasty has nothing to do with homosexuality; however, this push by the APA to normalize it is further evidence of homosexuality involved in pederasty as they are the ones most interested in normalizing it.
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