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To: DBeers
In 1957 psychologist Evelyn Hooker wrote a paper that claimed to show that homosexuality is normal.

It would be interesting to know when the first paper was written that declared homosexuality to be abnormal. I'm not referring to concepts of immoral or sinful conduct but rather the application of statistics (normal vs. abnormal) to human behavior. Normality itself is not the same as virtuous and abnormality is not necessarily a vice. Although it could be.

7 posted on 06/16/2006 1:42:38 PM PDT by Procyon (the lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.)
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To: Procyon
Normality itself is not the same as virtuous and abnormality is not necessarily a vice.

The abnormality of it is self-evident in that their sex organs do not match up and their biological design is entirely heterosexual. Lesbians ovulate. Whatever for? etc.

Still I hold that the underlying issue is sin. One sin leads to another leads to another. Something traumatic may have set them on this path, but the guilt of the sin, both the desire and the deed, is on them. Same goes for all of us. People sin against us; that gives us no excuse. We are still 100% guilty before God.

Immorality is always a vice. It might also be abnormal, but it is still a vice. It's an odd place to be self-righteous, but too many take that approach. To refuse responsibility is self-righteousness. Someone or something else is to blame. Child abuse is a horrible offense and I mourn deeply for the sufferings of those who endure it. But even that is no excuse.

18 posted on 06/16/2006 2:11:48 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Procyon

That is a good point. Psychology really took hold in the nineteenth century, so sometime during or after that. Of course, opinions about it have been held for as long as we know.


38 posted on 06/16/2006 6:09:43 PM PDT by NietzschesJoker (Silence, exile and cunning--a few of my favorite things.)
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