[Mr. Silverback]

Dr. George Weinberg, a New York City psychologist and researcher, commented that the aversion to Brokeback Mountain is “definitely homophobia.” He said the film is “the idea of one man’s adoration for another. A love affair more deep and lasting and romantic than with their wives.” He advised that those who are uneasy about the film “first understand you have this problem. At least by acknowledging it, that’s a start. It’s like saying, ‘I have a fear of heights.’”

So...if I don't want to pay $10 to watch two guys humping, I'm homophobic and don't love my wife enough. If I don't want to watch hetero porn, does that mean I am heterophobic and don't love my wife enough? Geez, these days some college degrees might as well be from a Crackerjack box. (Credit to my wife for pointing out the homo/heterophobic fallacy in this guy's already silly reasoning.)

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[MillerCreek]

MORAL ABSOLUTES Ping.

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"Prescription for Tolerance: Is 'Moral Judgement' a 'Mental Disorder'?"

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[Aquinasfan]

In other words, a person who views the legitimization of homosexuality as sinful, immoral, or destructive to society may have a mental disorder!

Good! This may FINALLY wake people up to the scam which is modern psychology.

[MillerCreek]

THIS statement by the "instructor of psychology" ILLUSRATES and REPRESENTS A DISTURBED MIND:

("...psychology professor Edward Dunbar, who equates so-called homophobia with racial bias and suggests the “disorder” should be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

"According to Professor Dunbar, “When I see someone who won’t see a physician because they’re Jewish, or who can’t sit in a restaurant because there are Asians, or feels threatened by homosexuals in the workplace, the party line in mental health says, ‘This is not our problem.’ If it’s not our problem, whose problem is it?

NOTE that the "instructor of psychology" makes an irrational and unreasonable (question as to why here becauase that's the query as to this person's mental disturbance) leap from discussing "race" related aversions to STATING THAT PEOPLE "FEAR" or experience "fear" ("in the workplace") "of homosexuals."

What he's doing is "leading" by disturbed reasoning the listener/reader (and hapless students, unfortunately) into concluding that if and when someone chooses to sit elsewhere or even work/purchase/shop/consume/loiter/entertain/whatever in whatever chosen location for whatever reason that they're displaying "fear" if and when someone else in a rejected proximinity is or may be "homosexual."

By this mentally ill perspective by this "professor of psychology," personal choice and personal evaluations when and if they can be equated by him to be in reference to "homosexuals" (according to this disturbed "instructor") is motivated by "fear."

Any sound psychiatrist should readily recognize this man's projections upon the vast generalities of "all" human beings otherwise. Without discussing and at length, with any one individual as to their thought and emotional process and mental capacity and functional abilities, THERE IS NO REASONABLE, SANE WAY that anyone else, be it "professor" or "psychologist," can EVER allege what anyone else's emotions in these specifics may be and are.

This fellow is mentally ill. As are his postulations and presumptions.

[MillerCreek]

And, any sound psychiatrist will readily recognize the privilege and reasonableness of individual religious beliefs within a context of mental wellness.

To reject homosexuality based upon personal beliefs, or even preferences, does not inherently define "fear" nor even suggest "fear of homosexuality."

It's a baseless and DISTURBED irrational suggestion and affirms to me that this entire line of suggestion by the "instructor" and similar represents A CULTURAL IMPOSITION by DISTURBED INDIVIDUALS.

If and when anyone chooses to work, sit, position at what table in what restaurant or workplace, to seek appropriate accommodations is not unreasonable. To reject homosexuality on a behavioral, moral and spiritual basis is certainly an individual option and no one should for even a minute be coerced nor intimidated into concluding that by exercising personal preferences is "wrong."

That very process -- introducing a negative characteristic, such as "fear" to the self awareness of anyone else -- is the FUNCTIONAL PROCESS BY WHICH HOMOSEXUALS PREDATE UPON OTHERS.

Ask any child or even vulnerable adult who has been predated upon by homosexual (or even heterosexual, to an extent) molestation and they'll say that they were told that their hesitation and initial rejections of the suggested behaviors represented something "bad" and that to accept and comply was "not wrong."

It's such abusive theorizing and strategy by this "instructor". He's laying the groundwork to define as "good" and "acceptable" homosexuality "in the workplace" when, in fact, homosexuality "in the workplace" is entirely inappropriate unless one's workplace is the porn industry or some homosexual-commerce of some sort.

People SHOULD, in fact, "fear" homosexuality "in the workplace" just as they should "fear" any "workplace" that requires or consists of sexuality of any sort.

This "instructor" is incompetent both as an educator and as a "psychologist" and should be in the care of a psychiatrist before he does any further harms to humankind.

[goldstategop]

They really want to criminalize conservatives. To the Left, we're the ones who are nuts. Talk about living in a parallel universe!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Chuckster]

...a person who views the legitimization of homosexuality as sinful, immoral, or destructive to society may have a mental disorder!

Or he may have studied history.

[Paul C. Jesup]

It is interesting to watch people pretend that homosexuality did not exist until the 1960's.

These people should learn about the ancient Greeks and Romans.

[Alouette]

Dr. LeVay

Any relation to the founder of the Church of Satan?

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda Ping!

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Must Read!!

Chuck Colson's editorial on the Washington Post's article; “Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness,”

[trubluolyguy]

So if you make any values or morals based judgements you aren't sane? It is more sane to take another mans' genitals into your @$$ than to find that practice disgusting?

[John Lenin]

Are homosexuals mentally ill?

In spite of its difficult problems, life is complex, amazing, stimulating and worthwhile. I regard it as mentally disturbed to risk it for the core ideal of homosexuality. There is quite a good case that some male homosexuality falls in this category since at least 20% of male homosexuals still regularly risk their lives with unsafe sex, one of the most extreme risks practiced by any significant fraction of society. I have so far not found any similar-sized group prepared to risk such a high rate of death. In its most extreme form then, I think homosexuality is a mental illness in its own right, but few therapists will see clients in that category because such clients will have already taken their first steps away by concluding that the lifestyle is not their fundamental ideal. However therapists should check for some of the other mental problems which are associated with the lifestyle, and refer clients as necessary.

In conclusion, if we ask the question “Are homosexuals mentally ill?” the answer at this point would have to be “You will need to check case by case, and see”.

[Iris7]

If a psychiatrist affirms that an individual is a danger to self and others that individual may be incarcerated indefinitely without trial or other recourse in most jurisdictions. An "insane homophobic syndrome patient" could be put away for ever without habeas corpus, no accusation, nothing.

[tutstar]

Baptist ping...

From the article the all-wise psycho-babblers are already experimenting on prisoners!

Other psychiatrists have gone a step further and suggested that persons who exhibit “homophobia” may need to be treated with anti-psychotic medications, with a program already implemented within the California Department of Corrections.

[MEGoody]

“Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness,”

LOL So does that include those who have an extreme bias against those who know that same gender is a bad thing?

No, of course it doesn't.

The psychiatrict community is allowing itself to be made a fool because of 'political correctness.'

[chesley]

Gary Belkin, deputy chief of psychiatry at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, said “Psychiatrists who are uneasy with including something like this in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual need to get used to the fact that the whole manual reflects social context. That is true of depression on down. Pathological bias is no more or less scientific than major depression.” Dr. Belkin plans to conduct a study on pathological bias among patients at his hospital.

What this fool is admitting, and I'd bet he doesn't even realize it, is that there [b]is no scientific validity[/b] to his profession.