Microsoft Sued Over Gay Bashing

[The Ghost of RubangB]

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 in part due to studies done at UCLA in the late 60s and early 70s.  They studied a large group of homosexual men in Los Angeles, and found that the percentage of homosexuals with mental illnesses is exactly the same as the percentage of heterosexuals with mental illnesses.  Mental illnesses often come in groups, or one can lead to another.  So if homosexuals were mentally unstable, they would have more mental illnesses than heterosexuals.  But they don't.  So it was concluded that homosexuality is not a mental illness.