Posted on 06/28/2013 3:32:52 AM PDT by nikos1121
In 1973, The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II).
This decision was a significant victory for homosexual activists and they have continued to claim that the APA based their decision on new scientific discoveries that proved that homosexual behavior is normal and should be affirmed in our culture.
This is false and part of numerous homosexual urban legends that have infiltrated every aspect of our culture. The removal of homosexuality as a mental disorder has given homosexual activists credibility in the culture, and they have demanded that their sexual behavior be affirmed in society.
What Really Happened?
Numerous psychiatrists over the past decades have described what forces were really at work both inside and outside of the American Psychiatric Association,and what led to the removal of homosexuality as a mental disorder.
Dr. Ronald Bayer, a pro-homosexual psychiatrist has described what actually occured in his book, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnoses. (1981)
Chapter 4, "Diagnostic Politics: Homosexuality and the American Psychiatric Association," Dr. Bayer says that the first attack by homosexual activists against the APA began in 1970 when this organization held its convention in San Francisco. Homosexual activists decided to disrupt the conference by interrupting speakers and shouting down and ridiculing psychiatrists who viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1971, homosexual activist Frank Kameny worked with the Gay Liberation Front collective to demonstrate against the APA's convention. At the 1971 conference, Kamney grabbed the microphone and yelled, "Psychiatry is the enemy incarnate. Psychiatry has waged a relentless war of extermination against us. You may take this as a decleration of war against you."
Homosexuals forged APA credentials and threatened anyone who claimed that homosexuals needed to be cured.
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I don’t get what you mean about the twin studies. If identical twins raised separately have the same concordance of homosexuality as identical twins raised together, doesn’t that imply that the cause would be genetic or congenital, not environmental?
My understanding is that separated twins have the same prevalence individually as the general population.
Separated twins, as I understand do NOT have a higher prevalence of homosexuality. There is no homo gene or genetic component at play here to explain the sexuality.
Now I’m open to debate and hearing the other side, but the gay lobby has basically put the gabosh on anyone... anyone who says the opposite.
Which is fine, and if that’s the case then why are a good number of homosexuals designated as being sex offenders?
Did you work in the entertainment business?
“I simply don’t believe this is true from a familial standpoint.”
I took it to mean “extended” family. IE: cousins, aunts, uncles, children grandchildren, and so on. Extended family usually can contain a surprisingly large number when you sit down and add them up.
I don’t think the author meant “immediate family”.
I know of NO ONE in my extended family that is gay. I simply don’t believe it....3.5% (if you concede that number is true) doesn’t even account for the claim.
They are all concentrated in areas where the media are, thus giving the impression there are many more of them than there really are.
Gays own the entire media industry.
True...you can see it in the pointless and strained introduction of gay characters in their shows. Simply no point for them being there at all for the show to succeed if it were well done. Pointless, perverted pandering to a bunch of sickos that should be in shock treatment.
You are absolutely right, and I thank you for clarifying things. I assume that I’m speaking to true believers here.
I’m also not saying that all endings are happy endings in the short term. In the long term, I think they are.
Our country has been blessed from the beginning because we were founded on Judeo-Christian values. I think God has watched out for us. However the last four years for sure has seen a culmination of some sinister changes in our moral makeup, that probably started long before that, that I believe will result in God treating us on the whole like we are Sodom and Gommorrah.
Who would think that Putin is the protector of Christiansand we have a guy who promotes their demise?
LOL! Sorry, I'm sure you don't find that funny at all but the way you describe it, that would make great scene in a comedy (if someone today would actually write gays as they are).
I think all of us have gay friends. Many of us have close family members. The women accept the behavior easier than the fathers and the brothers. How many men are purely gay? Probably 2 to 3% or less. How many bisexual? Much higher.
On the other hand, the current generation, is more forgiving and accepting than probably any other generation in the history of this country. Maybe it’s the nature of the evolution of a great society. After affluence you go into a period of moral decay, decadence and demise.
Something must change this trajectory. You would think that the AIDs virus would wake all of us it didn’t, and there’s more new sexual transmitted diseases in adults, esp recently divorced.
Something is going to happen, no doubt. Maybe a back lash on the state level that leads to a constitutional convention and we have an actual amendment that fully states that our country recognizes marriage between a man and a woman.
Yes. What you say is right.
As a physician and as a heterosexual man, I would say homosexuality does not need to be genetic to be a disease. I liken it to any addictive behavior, because there is a similarity. YOu often see multiple addictions actually.
Maybe environmental. What bothers me is that because the left has blocked any discussion or research in this country...or has undermined churches or clinic therapies that try to help people, people who might be healed are not healed.
In fact, we can all learn from an honest discussion on this.
I tried to say what you just did, but you put it more succinctly. I think something is going to happen...
Look, if a man wishes to marry a man, he can. COnsider it his religion. We can’t stop that. But to elevate that to the same level as a marriage between a man and woman is just not going to happen.
And if it does, then this country will be damned. All of us.
AS long as our churches refuse to provide these ceremonies, these people can do their thing.
have you posted this before? I would swear I’ve heard this story before, or one very much like it.
I assume that twins not separated would have the same prevalence of homosexuality, but if one is gay the liklihood that the other is too would make sense of it being more environmental.
I’m a playwright. I contend that stories about married couples are more entertaining that stories about couple who are single or gay etc. At least there are more options in the story.
This is not to say that Sleepless in Seattle, Something’s Got to Give, REturn to Me, big Fat Greek Wedding and on and on and on about the chase...(boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl etc), are not entertaining. They are very entertaining, but one dimensional, but don’t you want to know what happens after? Wouldn’t you love to see the characters played by Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in their marital years.
Family Man and Parenthood, Father of the Bride all those wonderful Sitcoms. Maybe I’m off base here. I only know, from a writer’s stand point, it’s easier for me to write a compelling story about married couples than single ones.
I’m sure there are great stories out there about the gays, but for me it’s one dimensional just as much as it is about heterosexual couples that are NOT married.
Maybe it’s more than that. Maybe it’s actually simpler, i.e. about the family of two, that becomes three then four etc. The Waltons don’t seems to go out of style, neither does Leave it to Beaver.
Teh most erotic experience I can recall as a young man occurred on the Island of Mykonos back in the 70s when I was in college. I was going to meet some friends, (not gay) there. The island was made famous because Jackie Kennedy loved it. I knew nothing before hand about the place. I was waiting to get on a bus to go to one of the beaches. I sensed something was amiss when I was getting eyed and oodled by other dudes standing next to me. When I boarded, I naturally sat down next to this cute blonde girl who was about my age. As other men came aboard they were eyeing me like I was fresh meat, and they were on a feeding frenzy. I turned to the girl next to me saying, “Are they making a pass at you or me?” She replied. “They are definitely eyeing you.” I stayed glued to her like a bad smell when we left the bus, and we boarded a little boat that ferried (excuse the pun) us all to one of three beaches. AS we started to come a shore I noticed that half the kids on the beach, (called Paradise) were naked. She wanted to go to the second beach, (Superparadise) the next stop. There everyone was naked. The gays went on to the last beach (Hell). I vividly recall young college age kids from all over the world, many from the US. Sweatshirts that said Cornell, Stanford, UCLA, Notre Dame, OSU, BAMA etc were getting being peeled off. Beautiful people stripping down and running around like they were two years old again in their back yard. Ten minutes after the girl I had met had stripped I did too. I figured, “when in Rome...” Two weeks later I was back in Chicago, and life as usual.
Mykonos then was highly affordable and emaculately clean. Largely due to the gay population on the beach. The beaches were closed down completely a few years later.
This is a whole different culture for gays. It’s a 24/7 sex party that never stops. The jealously, the heart break etc are ten fold what they are in heterosexual couples.
I might have,.. I tell everybody it because to this day it really ticks me off, especially any time I hear people say “homosexuals are like other people they are not mentally ill blah blah blah” Oh maaan that drives me nuts! I say oh no OH nooo?? Let me tell you a story! ha ha.
I agree, IF it stops at that. “Marry” your homo lover. “Marry” your cocker spaniel for all I care. But don’t come into my world and demand that I recognize those perversions as the sacrament of marriage as defined by my religion or even my personal values. You may be able to LEGALLY unite yourself with your goldfish, but I will not — now or ever — recognize that unholy union as a marriage. The law be damned.
Exactly. The mental illness involves more than just making them look upon people of the same gender as sex objects—it permeates every aspect of their lives. Homosexuals who achieve a stable relationship and lifestyle analogous to a heterosexual lifestyle are, I believe, exceedingly rare—especially if they are men.
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