Microsoft Sued Over Gay Bashing

[halogamer1989]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Tyrannical said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

You'd rather believe that the APA has declassified homosexuality as a mental illness for over 30 years as part of a political agenda to support gay rights at the expense of covering up the mental instability of millions of Americans?  I doubt that would even be possible.  If millions and millions of gays in America were ALL hormonally/chemically imbalanced, don't you think we'd know by now?

 Yes,

and it also would not be the first time a group of medical professionals have been forced to make changes for politcal reasons either. The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities once was.

I would think the AIDS/Gay rights protestors and thier over the top antics would hint at other forms of mental illness also. 

If you believe in nationwide gay conspiracy theories, how would gay people have taken over the APA, or what would the APA have gained from lying about science for decades to protect a vocal minority of supposedly mentally unstable people?

This was during a time when the federal government would fire any homosexual government employee because it considered them at risk for selling national security secrets to communists.  The logic was that any communist could kidnap any gay government employee and say "tell us all your secrets or we'll tell everybody you're gay" and that any gay person would choose to tell the secrets.  In fact, one of the people they fired this way (I forget his name, don't remember where my notes are) petitioned the APA for years to declassify homosexuality to prove he was normal.  But the APA didn't listen to him until UCLA did the study I mentioned earlier, and it was one of many studies at the time that showed that homosexuals and heterosexuals had similar amounts of mental illnesses.

No.  I am not one for too many conspiracy theories besides maybe a little Obama stuff here and there   I do think that there are a lot of homosexual people working in scientific areas as it requires a liberal way of thinking/education.  I would also like to think that the DoD was doing the right thing for that time period (Cold War) when any few sentences of intel spilled could start a nuclear WWIII.  Now do I think that they would do it today and get away with it?  Overtly, hell no.  Covertly, yes.