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Chinese Regulator Calls Homosexuality ‘Abnormal’ and Bans Gay Content From the Internet

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China released a new regulation Friday banning any display of “abnormal sexual behaviors” — including homosexuality — in online video and audio content. The regulation , published by the China Netcasting Services Association ( CNSA ), lays out strict censorship rules for online content ranging from movies and documentaries to cartoons and educational videos, according to Reuters . Under the new rules, content will be edited or even banned if it promotes “luxurious lifestyles,” shows “violent and criminal processes in detail,” demonstrates “obscenity” including masturbation or displays “abnormal sexual behaviors" such as homosexuality. The new rules sparked debates and oppositions on Chinese social media . Li Yinhe , China’s leading scholar and advocate of free sexuality , said in a Weibo post that under these regulations, “all audio-visual art will be revoked. We want freedom to show homosexuality in all its glory." “Trying to regulate and censor people’s desires is as ...

Why shouldn't Regnerus damaging study on children of homosexuals guide public policy?

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Paul Amato, one of the revered deans of American sociology, has shown courage in bucking his academic peers, as he did when he suggested that a “good divorce” is not all that good for children (see New Research, Summer 2012 ). Yet the scholar has not demonstrated the same resolve in dealing with the academic and media lobbies that assert that homosexual parenting can be good for children. In his relatively fair review of the studies by Loren Marks and Mark Regnerus (see the two New Research commentaries above), he defends the policy statements of the American Psychological Association (APA) that endorse homosexual parenting while fearing Regnerus’s work might be used “to undermine the social progress that has been made in recent decades protecting the rights of gays, lesbians, and their children.” That’s a surprising response, given the conviction of a fellow employee of Penn State , Jerry Sandusky , both a gay father and gay predator. Amato is more than willing to give the APA ho...

Homosexuals are intrinsically disordered

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The homosexualist movement lobbied hard in the late sixties, at the height of the sexual revolution , to have homosexuality removed from psychiatric diagnostic manuals. This goal was accomplished in 1973, when the  American Psychiatric Association  (APA) became the first to remove it from the  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders  (DSM-II). Since then, activists in the movement have used their success to good effect in many jurisdictions. Colegas a gay zealot group made  a similar threat  against Professor Gloria Maria Tomas of the Catholic  University of Murcia , who told a conference audience that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered” and that it was only removed from the lists of psychological pathologies after political pressure from gay lobbyists.  Related articles Psychiatrists From Another Dimension (Part 1) (blogs.discovermagazine.com) Meet the DSM: Big Pharma's Psychiatric Bible (cchrint.org) How the...

The APA big lie on homosexuality

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The American Psychiatric Association's Big Lie Manuel Half, is the son of a homosexual father by a surrogate mother . Whereas I tend to express myself in prose, Manuel is a beautiful artist, and he has created many wonderful graphics expressing his protest against the same-sex parenting movement. This piece is one that I particularly like, with the image of the "APA" and it's "Big Lie" -- the lie that children of same-sex couples feel no loss at lacking a mother or father. The detail of the couple with the pin popping the bubble is awesome. The APA , we should remember, classified homosexuality as a mental disease for over 100 years. I doubt any consensus coming from them ought to inspire much confidence in homosexuals.  The  American Psychiatric Association This particular association had a consensus for 100 years that homosexuality was a mental disorder. Members of this association endorsed eugenics, forced sterilization of people, and electr...

The APA big lie on homosexuality

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The American Psychiatric Association's Big Lie Manuel Half is the son of a homosexual father by a surrogate mother . Manuel is a beautiful artist, and he has created many wonderful graphics expressing his protest against the same-sex parenting movement. This piece is one that I particularly like, with the image of the "APA" and it's "Big Lie" -- the lie that children of same-sex couples feel no loss at lacking a mother or father. The detail of the couple with the pin popping the bubble is awesome. The APA , we should remember, classified homosexuality as a mental disease for over 100 years. I doubt any consensus coming from them ought to inspire much confidence in homosexuals.  The  American Psychiatric Association This particular association had a consensus for 100 years that homosexuality was a mental disorder. Members of this association endorsed eugenics, forced sterilization of people, and electroshock therapy. These are the people who ...

Pedophile support group demands ‘truth and dignity’ - Want same rights as homosexuals

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Who could've seen this coming? Well, those of us who can see the "logical" end results of the radical homosexual movement, that's who. With homosexual activists on the march throughout our government, military, schools and society in general, many of us have warned that their push for special "rights" would – besides trample on the freedoms of speech, religion and association of those who oppose them – inevitably lead to demands by other sexual deviants, like pedophiles, for their own societal affirmation. Jack Minor, in his column titled " Pedophiles want same rights as homosexuals, " wrote: Using the same tactics used by "gay" rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals. Critics of the homosexual lifestyle have long claimed that once it became acceptable to identify homosexuality as simply an "alternative lif...

Obama administration: Homosexuals cannot change their sexual orientation?

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English: Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. , February 26, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – President Barack Obama's administration does not believe homosexuals can change their sexual orientation and holds that reparative therapy is “generally futile and potentially dangerous to an individual's well-being.” Those are the sentiments expressed in the amicus curiae the Justice Department filed with the Supreme Court on Friday, urging justices to strike down a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). According to the Obama administration, “the broad consensus in the scientific community is that, for the vast majority of people (gay and straight alike), sexual orientation is not a voluntary choice.” The brief also asserts that the medical profession has determined that “efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation are generally futile and potentially dangerous...

APA to eliminate gender identity disorder, replace with ‘gender dysphoria’

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August 13, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – You are born with an XY or an XX chromosome, primary characteristics that will objectively develop one genotype: male or female. But now you can choose whether to be male, female, or something else—and when the American Psychiatric Association releases their new manual, it will be perfectly normal. In May 2013, the APA will publish the DSM-5 , the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . A significant change will be the reclassification of Gender Identity Disorder to “Gender Dysphoria.” “Dysphoria” is a word meaning “emotional distress.” Proponents of the change believe it is a positive step, removing the stigma of mental illness from a group of people—not all of whom feel the need for psychological counselling. Critics, on the other hand, including one former president of the APA, maintain that the change is motivated by politics, rather than science. “We know there is a whole community of people ou...

The danger to children of the Queensland Homosexual surrogacy laws

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Lesbian Family (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In 2005, the APA declared—in a statement authored by a single activist psychologist—that:  …there is no evidence to suggest that…psychosocial development among  children  of  lesbian women  and  gay men is compromised relative to that among offspring of heterosexual  parents. Not a single study has found children of lesbian or  gay parents  to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Prof. Marks Regnerus demonstrates that all of the studies on which this statement is based are significantly flawed. For instance, none of the 59 studies focused on racial or  ethnic minorities , and few studied any such minorities at all. Furthermore, samples were consistently skewed toward economically and socially privileged families. As Marks puts it: “By their own reports, social researchers examining same-sex parenting have repeatedly selected small, non-rep...

The APA are wrong on Homosexuality and Kids

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Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In 2005, the APA declared—in a statement authored by a single activist psychologist—that: …there is no evidence to suggest that…psychosocial development among children of  lesbian women  and gay men is compromised relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents. Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Prof. Marks Regnerus demonstrates that all of the studies on which this statement is based are significantly flawed. For instance, none of the 59 studies focused on racial or ethnic minorities , and few studied any such minorities at all. Furthermore, samples were consistently skewed toward economically and socially privileged families. As Marks puts it: “By their own reports, social researchers examining same-sex parenting have repeatedly selected small, non-representative, homogenous samples of pr...