Microsoft Sued Over Gay Bashing

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Tyrannical said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Homosexuality is not a mental illness.  The APA hasn't listed it as one since 1973.  In fact, every year when they vote on their list of mental diseases at their convention, the vote to list homosexuality as a mental illness gets smaller every year.  So unless you have some data to prove the last 36 years of American research wrong, don't make these arguments.  They're wrong.

 

Yes, but why was it reclassified? Was it for valid scientific reasons, or political pressure?

Is it even possible to have a scientific debate on it anymore? I doubt the homosexual lobby groups would stand for it if they did.

I wonder what type of protests and political pressure those that still feel it is a mental illness have to put up with. I bet it would drive the gay rights groups "crazy". <-----

 

 

It was reclassified once religious groups stopped having as much influence upon the process as they once did. In order for it to be considered a mental illness it would have to cause either distress or disability, I know enough gay people to know that it causes them neither - at least in a culture which is accepting of them (I live in a country lucky enough to generally be one of the few that is).

In fact same with the entire transgender thing, it causes no distress or disability and as such cannot be considered a mental illness. One of the things that makes me proudest of my country is the fact that we were the first in the world to ever to elect a transexual member of parliament.