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When the APA reclassified homosexuality from sin to mental disorder to a lifestyle

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In 1973, after several years of bitter dispute, the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association decided to remove homosexuality from its official list of mental diseases . Infuriated by the Board's action, a substantial number of dissident psychiatrists charged the association's leadership with capitulating to the pressures of Gay Liberation groups , and forced the board to submit its decision to a referendum of the full APA membership. To those who viewed the 1973 decision sympathetically, psychiatry had displayed a remarkable capacity to acknowledge the significance of new research findings and to rethink its approach to sexuality.  Psychiatry did not capitulate to the pressure of Gay Liberation, but rather revealed an admirable flexibility. Unlike those who were unyieldingly committed to anti-homosexual values rooted in the Judeo-Christian past, the leadership of the American Psychiatric Association had demonstrated wisdom, insight, and the stren...

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...

American Psychiatric Association deleted homosexuality as a mental disorder by a vote not by science

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1973, the American Psychiatric Association deleted homosexuality from the list of mental disorders , the question was simply removed, not resolved. This deletion did not happen as a result of a adequate scientific debate , but only exhorting…subscribers to the Association to express themselves, through a vote, on whether to continue to consider homosexuality as an illness of psychiatric significance. This process, had nothing to do with objective science. Related articles Matt Miller Recognized by American Psychiatric Association (prweb.com) You Were Warned About the Slippery Slope (antzinpantz.wordpress.com) 'Gay' laws set stage for pedophilia 'rights' (mobile.wnd.com) It Begins: Pedophiles Call for Same Rights as Homosexuals (secretsofthefed.com) LebMASH responds to a concerned Lebanese (lebmash.wordpress.com) Homosexuality as a disease (reinholdsite.wordpress.com) It Begins: Pedophiles Call for Same Rights as Homosexuals (patdollard.com) It beg...

Homosexuality removed as a disorder by APA based on a vote not science

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The  President of the National Council  of the order of psychologists, Luigi Palma, said, “It is very serious that the detractors of the anti- homophobic   laws  repeat, among others, the idea that homosexuality is a disease to be cured and, consequently, that homosexual orientation can be changed.” D’ Agostino called Palma's statement “absolutely unconscionable” and noted that those who had opposed the bill for serious legal reasons had been exposed to “a variety of violent attacks, including some that were very crude from gay movements." Palma, in his attempt to shut down opposition, “is actually proving to be a valuable ally of those who believe that the true goal of a law against homophobia is to muzzle the freedom of scientific research and, more generally, of the free manifestation of thought,” D’Agostino added. The claim made by Palma and others that homosexuality is normal and must never be subjected to psychological treatment is based on false pre...

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...

Ontario transgender bill passes 2nd reading

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OTTAWA, Ontario, May 22, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A bill to amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to include “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination passed its second reading on May 10 in the provincial legislature. Bill 33 is sponsored by NDP Cheri DiNovo , MPP (Parkdale-High Park). It is the fourth time the bill has been introduced, but the first time it has reached its second reading. During her presentation of the Bill prior to the vote, DiNovo referred to Joan of Arc as an historical transgendered person and compared Toby Dancer, a deceased transgender person whom Bill 33 is named after, to the highly revered Catholic saint . St. Joan of Arc “At Toby’s funeral, I said, ‘We may be the first church … to put a stained glass window in the sanctuary depicting a trans person,’ because we had one made of Toby playing the piano. … somebody called out, ‘What about Joan of Arc?’ … What about those trans people in history th...

Newsweek admits the obvious: America is in the grip of sex addiction

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- Newsweek magazine , a rather pedestrian organ of American liberal sensibility, has been compelled to admit the obvious: Americans are addicted to sex in large numbers. Surprisingly enough, the magazine even goes so far as to admit that at least some homosexual activity is related to sex addiction. Newsweek Some hair-raising statistics Newsweek’s “ The Sex Addiction Epidemic ”: 40 million people a day are logging into porn websites, (about 13% of the US population). Up to 9 million may qualify under the strict clinical definition of a “sex addict.” Psychologists specializing in the the disorder have multiplied from 100 a decade years ago to over 1,500 today. Although Newsweek admits that the “digital revolution” has much to do with the situation through the provision of easily-accessible hard-core pornography, it fails to state another obvious point: that the culture of the United States and other western countries is saturated with a “softer” porn that is potentially just as deadl...

The Gay Myth: Born this way can't change

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Image via Wikipedia by Dale O'Leary Refuting the Distortions of the GLBTQ Activists Distortion #2:  Persons with SSA can’t change In 2003 Dr. Robert Spitzer , who had thirty years before been instrumental in the decision of the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA,  published a study of 200 men and women who had undergone therapy for SSA and reported change in their pattern of sexual attraction. At the time a major initiative had been launched by pro-SSA mental health professionals to ban therapy directed to changing SSA. Spitzer conducted phone interviews with 200 persons who had been in treatment for SSA. He concluded that although not all successfully became functioning heterosexuals, some did and the rest felt the therapy had benefited them. [1]  The study was not designed to discover the percentage of those in therapy who experience a real change, only if anyone in therapy experience...