On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:38:40 -0500, Fritz 
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>wbt{at}privacy.net wrote:
>
>> >>> Being a born again christian bigot is unhealthy, this sickness
>> >>> should be controlled as much as possible.
>> >>>
>> >>> -- Fritz ...
>> >>
>> >>Being born with an illness that causes unnatural sexual
cravings is quite
>> >>different than being a "born again" Christian
bigot.  The two are not
>> >>comparable.  One is a set of beliefs that are learned, and
the other is a
>> >>mental disorder (yes, you can try to be clever and say
that homosexuality is
>> >>learned, but wouldn't that fly in the face of the whole gay equality
>> >>movement?).  Homosexuality is a genuine illness that needs
treatment.  Or do
>> >>you believe that homosexuality is a life choice, and not a
condition you are
>> >>born with?
>> >
>> >Homosexuality is not a disease or an illness.  It is the way you are
>> >born.
>>
>> Really? I would really like to be able to read further on that bit of
>> information. Please tell me where you obtained it?
>
>http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/answers.html

The  APA! You have got to be kidding....

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Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior
Is Normal

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 explains how homosexual activists captured the APA
for political gain.

Dr. Ronald Bayer, a pro-homosexual psychiatrist has described what
actually occurred in his book, Homosexuality and American Psychiatry:
The Politics of Diagnosis. (1981)

In 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, Kameny 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 declaration of war against you."

Homosexuals forged APA credentials and gained access to exhibit areas
in the conference. They threatened anyone who claimed that homosexuals
needed to be cured.

Kameny had found an ally inside of the APA named Kent Robinson who
helped the homosexual activist present his demand that homosexuality
be removed from the DSM. At the 1972 convention, homosexual activists
were permitted to set up a display booth, entitled "Gay, Proud and
Healthy."

Kameny was then permitted to be part of a panel of psychiatrists who
were to discuss homosexuality. The effort to remove homosexuality as a
mental disorder from the DSM was the result of power politics,
threats, and intimidation, not scientific discoveries.

Prior to the APA's 1973 convention, several psychiatrists attempted to
organize opposition to the efforts of homosexuals to remove homosexual
behavior from the DSM. Organizing this effort were Drs. Irving Bieber
and Charles Socarides who formed the Ad Hoc Committee Against the
Deletion of Homosexuality from DSM-II.

The DSM-II listed homosexuality as an abnormal behavior under section
"302. Sexual Deviations." It was the first deviation listed.

After much political pressure, a committee of the APA met behind
closed doors in 1973 and voted to remove homosexuality as a mental
disorder from the DSM-II. Opponents of this effort were given 15
minutes to protest this change, according to Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, in
Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth. Satinover writes that after
this vote was taken, the decision was to be voted on by the entire APA
membership. The National Gay Task Force purchased the APA's mailing
list and sent out a letter to the APA members urging them to vote to
remove homosexuality as a disorder. No APA member was informed that
the mailing had been funded by this homosexual activist group.

According to Satinover, "How much the 1973 APA decision was motivated
by politics is only becoming clear even now. While attending a
conference in England in 1994, I met a man who told me an account that
he had told no one else. He had been in the gay life for years but had
left the lifestyle. He recounted how after the 1973 APA decision, he
and his lover, along with a certain very highly placed officer of the
APA Board of Trustees and his lover, all sat around the officer's
apartment celebrating their victory. For among the gay activists
placed high in the APA who maneuvered to ensure a victory was this
man-suborning from the top what was presented to both the membership
and the public as a disinterested search for truth."
Dr. Socarides Speaks Out

Dr. Satinover shows how APA's policies were influcenced by closeted
homosexual APA leaders.

Dr. Charles Socarides has set the record straight on how homosexuals
inside and outside of the APA forced this organization to remove
homosexuality as a mental disorder. This was done without any valid
scientific evidence to prove that homosexuality is not a disordered
behavior.

Dr. Socarides, writing in Sexual Politics and Scientific Logic: The
Issue of Homosexuality writes: "To declare a condition a
'non-condition,' a group of practitioners had removed it from our list
of serious psychosexual disorders. The action was all the more
remarkable when one considers that it involved an out-of-hand and
peremptory disregard and dismissal not only of hundreds of psychiatric
and psychoanalytic research papers and reports, but also a number of
other serious studies by groups of psychiatrists, psychologists, and
educators over the past seventy years…"

Socarides continued: "For the next 18 years, the APA decision served
as a Trojan horse, opening the gates to widespread psychological and
social change in sexual customs and mores. The decision was to be used
on numerous occasions for numerous purposes with the goal of
normalizing homosexuality and elevating it to an esteemed status.

"To some American psychiatrists, this action remains a chilling
reminder that if scientific principles are not fought for, they can be
lost-a disillusioning warning that unless we make no exceptions to
science, we are subject to the snares of political factionalism and
the propagation of untruths to an unsuspecting and uninformed public,
to the rest of the medical profession, and to the behavioral
sciences." Dr. Socarides' report is available from the National
Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality: www.narth.com.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DSM

The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is the
most widely used diagnostic reference book utilized by mental health
professionals in the United States.

It's a manual by which all diagnostic codes are derived for diagnosis
and treatment - every single physician (an estimated 850,000*) in the
United States refers to this book in order to code for a diagnosis. In
plain English, what does this mean? It means that for over 30 years
physicians have been prevented from properly diagnosing homosexuality
as an aberrant behavior and thus, cannot, recommend a course of
treatment for these individuals.

Prior to that time, homosexuality had been treated as a mental
disorder under section "302. Sexual Deviations" in the DSM-II. Section
302 said, in part: "This category is for individuals whose sexual
interests are directed primarily toward objects other than people of
the opposite sex, toward sexual acts … performed under bizarre
circumstances. … Even though many find their practices distasteful,
they remain unable to substitute normal sexual behavior for them."
Homosexuality was listed as the first sexual deviation under 302. Once
that diagnostic code for homosexuality was removed, physicians,
including psychiatrists, have been prevented from diagnosing
homosexuality as a mental disorder for more than three decades.

*American Medical Association statistic, 2002.


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