American Philosophers’ Association: Must accept gay ‘marriage’ – disagreement now means discrimination

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The American Philosophical Association (APA), "the premier philosophical learned society in North America," has revised its Code of Conduct for professional philosophers to exclude gender-identity dissent by labeling disagreement as "discrimination."
Unnamed members of the association petitioned the APA to update its code of conduct to include discrimination based on "gender identity." The APA's board approved the updated code of conduct.
"The American Philosophical Association rejects as unethical all forms of discrimination based on … sexual orientation (and) gender identification,” the new code reads.
The code specifically forbids "discrimination" for "integrally connected" behavior, such as "sexual conduct expressive of a sexual orientation," and "same-sex marriage."
"The only way that the APA can demand that all philosophers and others bow to the politically correct creed that 'gender' determines a person's sex is by ignoring the body altogether," Father Johannes Jacobse of the American Orthodox Institute  said. 
"People are born either male or female. Our bodies tell us which one we are."
Fr. Jacobse stated that the natural, binary nature of male and female is an "inconvenient truth" for LGBTQ activists that they get around by changing terms. He went on to explain that "inconvenient truth goes away only when we pretend the body has nothing to do with sex. The term 'gender' replaces what the term 'sex' used to mean (male or female) in order to proclaim that a person can declare whatever sex he or she wants to be."
"It's a confusion of the first order that will fail in the end," Jacobse said, "because when it comes to matters of biology — in this case our birth sex — nature always wins. No amount of politically correct pressure such as the APA seeks to impose will change this."
In an ambiguous section of the new code of conduct, the APA appears to give religious institutions some leeway but then takes two steps back, qualifying religious freedom is allowed "so long as the criteria for such religious affiliation do not discriminate against persons according to the other attributes listed in this statement."
The APA's website explains that the organization "encourages" compliance, and enforces compliance with anyone using APA networking.  
"The APA board of officers expects that all those who use the APA placement service will comply with the letter and spirit of all applicable regulations concerning nondiscrimination, equal employment opportunity, and affirmative action," the APA website states.

 

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