Posted on 10/31/2015 2:51:04 AM PDT by markomalley
This summer, the Supreme Court narrowly redefined marriage and handed the gay-rights movement a major victory: full “equality†and recognition by the government. With that box checked, the gay-rights movement can now focus on its ultimate goal: silencing those who disagree.
One new and troubling strategy has emerged from the scientific community. Instead of vilifying those who believe in natural marriage, suggest some researchers, we should diagnose them.
It’s an ironic reversal. Years ago, homosexuality was listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s manual of disorders. But in 1986 it was removed, followed by a concerted push from Association members to normalize homosexual behavior.
In just thirty years, America went from a country where homosexuality was a diagnosable disorder to one where you can be fined for refusing to bake a gay “wedding†cake. Now things are going a step further. New research published in “The Journal of Sexual Medicine†suggests that homophobia, not homosexuality, is the psychological disorder.
“Live Science†reports that researchers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata asked 560 university students to report their feelings about homosexuality, then gave them a standard psychiatric evaluation.
Participants who exhibited what the researchers called “healthy attachment styles†tended to show less animosity toward homosexuals. They also showed more “mature coping mechanisms†in “scary or unpleasant situations,†and were generally less angry. But those who showed the highest animosity toward homosexuals exhibited a host of warning signs like inability to trust others, passive-aggressive behavior, and denial.
Lead researcher Emmanuele Jannini concluded, “After discussing for centuries if homosexuality is to be considered a disease, for the first time we demonstrated that the real disease to be cured is homophobia.â€
Well, this was red meat for progressive websites and news outlets, who gladly trumpeted the results.
I can’t help but think of C. S. Lewis’ chilling and prophetic essay, “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.†Lewis believed that persecution in the future would look less like jack-booted thuggery, and more like therapy: “…certain schools of psychology already regard religion as a neurosis,†he wrote. “When this particular neurosis becomes inconvenient to the government, what is to hinder the government from proceeding to ‘cure’ it,†with mandatory re-education or other forms of treatment?
Jannini’s willingness to label homophobia as “the real disease to be cured†shows just how quickly we’re moving down this path. But we can respond: First, there are a lot of problems with how this study is being analyzed, even by its authors. For example, should it surprise us that those who show animosity toward people in general also show animosity toward gay people? Bad psychological traits probably don’t discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Secondly, and more importantly, a “phobia†is “an irrational and debilitating fear†of something, and Christians don’t feel this way about those who identify as gay, or they certainly shouldn’t. Ours is a rational stance based on human flourishing and God’s created order, not “irrational animus.†It’s entirely possible to object to sin, refuse to dignify it, and still love those caught up in it. In fact, that’s what Jesus commanded us to do.
So no, we don’t need a checkup from the neck up for believing what Christians have always believed. And no matter how crazy it sounds to some folks, we have got to point out the true disease, and the only cure.
Plumbing the depths of (carnal) knowlege, I’m sure.
We expect this woe, but the American people feel impunity, a word they can’t define, but it means they expect to be exempt from the calamity.
So that means 1 in 200 makes the policies endorsed by the American people.
Well, many men have HIV, not full-blown AIDS. And gay men die very young compared to the general male population. And, yes, the whole subject is verboten. What a change from the 80s when politicians and activists spoke out strongly on the lifestyle of gay men!
“What were once mental patients are now being encouraged to take over.”
Amen, I have been saying that for many years just using more words. The fact that Hillary Clinton is not only running for president but considered the ony serious candidate for the dim bulb party and many are convinced she will be the next president is total proof of the truth of your sentence.
IDIOCRACY is now a nostalgia film about the good old days.
What village are those people from?
“More than one has admitted that people who go into psychology do so to try and understand/fix their own neuroses.”
That certainly fits with my observations, not all of those who have severe mental problems become psychologists but all of those who become psychologists have severe mental problems.
Egg producers felt impunity, too, until this summer...
http://www.twincities.com/business/ci_28069172/decomposing-turkeys-and-chickens-lead-odors-flies
Imagine a bird-human crossover virus...
It is for procreation. All so called scientists should know this as a fact.
Who their right might would put body parts in an area of the body of that has caused more disease and death than just about anything else.
There have to be hundreds of nasty viruses and bacteria that come out of the south end of a north bound human.
Lets start with ebola.
NAMBLA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association
If your comment was meant to be a sarcastic jab that these “people”, OK. But if you were projecting a possibility based off the prevailing winds; Welcome to the party, Pal!
I like to ask them why it's called the "human reproductive system."
And if they don't like it, I ask them to suggest another name.
Calling political dissenters insane is an old soviet trick.
The left has no new book of tricks. They will use the classics.
Faggots took over the mental health industry.
The inmates are running the asylum.
Science has nothing to do with it.
They claim it is natural and then they must use artificial lubricants and sphincter muscle relaxers (poppers) to ‘comfortably’ engage in the act.
There is no evolutionary trend promoting this activity.
Just tellin it like it is.
glGuns, cigarettes, and conservatism is one thing, but I would feel complete gratification standing on top of these doctors’ desks and dropping a deuce right in the middle of their daily planner.
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The sex positive agenda (their term for it) is designed to end ALL moral judgments over sexual pairings of ANY kind regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).
It specifically targets (tries to censor) ‘religious’ viewpoints (they deem these to be ‘sex negative’ and with the religious component, are barred access to schools).
They are anti-abstinence not because “it doesn’t work” (even though they may utter those words in public) but because it is counter to their whole worldview. They say that suppression of sexual desire is unhealthy. Want to have an affair? DO IT.
We live to be entertained, and that is what's gays do. They put on a show.
There is no such thing as deviant behavior.
I asked my wife, what makes them able to go on TV and brag about sticking their penis in another man's ass? Her answer, they have no shame.
Shame for being a deviant, It is cultural thing. Our culture has lost that. If you want to walk into a store with your underwear showing and your pants below your ass, go for it. If you want someone else to pay all your bills, go for it.
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