I support Manny's stance ,Do you?

[tangalog2200]

don't come at me with that weak conspiracy crap. do some research and find out why and how it was listed as a mental disorder to begin with. it wasn't based on any amount of scientific study, but it was based on how society "felt" towards gay people and social norms. yea not very scientific at all. they took it out because it wasn't based on anything factual.

ok read this: from - behaviorism and mental health by philip hickey ;phd

According to the American Psychiatric Association, until 1974 *******uality was a mental illness. Freud had alluded to *******uality numerous times in his writings, and had concluded that paranoia and *******uality were inseparable. Other psychiatrists wrote copiously on the subject, and *******uality was “treated” on a wide basis. There was little or no suggestion within the psychiatric community that *******uality might be conceptualized as anything other than a mental illness that needed to be treated. And, of course, *******uality was listed as a mental illness in DSM-II. (The DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – is the APA’s standard classification of their so-called mental disorders, and is used by many mental health workers in the USA and other countries.)

Then in 1970 gay activists protested against the APA convention in San Francisco. These scenes were repeated in 1971, and as people came out of the “closet” and felt empowered politically and socially, the APA directorate became increasingly uncomfortable with their stance. In 1973 the APA’s nomenclature task force recommended that *******uality be declared normal. The trustees were not prepared to go that far, but they did vote to remove *******uality from the list of mental illnesses by a vote of 13 to 0, with 2 abstentions. This decision was confirmed by a vote of the APA membership, and *******uality was no longer listed in the seventh edition of DSM-II, which was issued in 1974.

What’s noteworthy about this is that the removal of *******uality from the list of mental illnesses was not triggered by some scientific breakthrough. There was no new fact or set of facts that stimulated this major change. Rather, it was the simple reality that gay people started to kick up a fuss. They gained a voice and began to make themselves heard. And the APA reacted with truly astonishing speed. And with good reason. They realized intuitively that a protracted battle would have drawn increasing attention to the spurious nature of their entire taxonomy. So they quickly “cut loose” the gay community and forestalled any radical scrutiny of the DSM system generally.

[M Bison]

How could you support him saying this?
Just let people do what they want to do (within reason) and two consenting adults committing towards that type of ***ually activity isn't animalistic at all in fact animals tend to f**k to breed so IF anything us hetero***uals are the animals too bad Manny must be too stupid to realize that.

[M Bison]

ok read this: from - behaviorism and mental health by philip hickey ;phd

According to the American Psychiatric Association, until 1974 *******uality was a mental illness. Freud had alluded to *******uality numerous times in his writings, and had concluded that paranoia and *******uality were inseparable. Other psychiatrists wrote copiously on the subject, and *******uality was “treated” on a wide basis. There was little or no suggestion within the psychiatric community that *******uality might be conceptualized as anything other than a mental illness that needed to be treated. And, of course, *******uality was listed as a mental illness in DSM-II. (The DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – is the APA’s standard classification of their so-called mental disorders, and is used by many mental health workers in the USA and other countries.)

Then in 1970 gay activists protested against the APA convention in San Francisco. These scenes were repeated in 1971, and as people came out of the “closet” and felt empowered politically and socially, the APA directorate became increasingly uncomfortable with their stance. In 1973 the APA’s nomenclature task force recommended that *******uality be declared normal. The trustees were not prepared to go that far, but they did vote to remove *******uality from the list of mental illnesses by a vote of 13 to 0, with 2 abstentions. This decision was confirmed by a vote of the APA membership, and *******uality was no longer listed in the seventh edition of DSM-II, which was issued in 1974.

What’s noteworthy about this is that the removal of *******uality from the list of mental illnesses was not triggered by some scientific breakthrough. There was no new fact or set of facts that stimulated this major change. Rather, it was the simple reality that gay people started to kick up a fuss. They gained a voice and began to make themselves heard. And the APA reacted with truly astonishing speed. And with good reason. They realized intuitively that a protracted battle would have drawn increasing attention to the spurious nature of their entire taxonomy. So they quickly “cut loose” the gay community and forestalled any radical scrutiny of the DSM system generally.

Its addition to that mental illness was probably heavily due to religious cults like the catholic clergy but the Irony of them calling it an illness is the fact the majority of their priests are boy lovers maybe they decided If they removed *******uals from it that somehow they'd be allowed to further carry on their abusing of innocent children.

[M Bison]

[PACnPBFsuck]

Some of ya could learn a thing or two just by looking at this picture.

[ussy]

Some of ya could learn a thing or two just by looking at this picture.

Exactly, they're the type of people that would believe **** was OK as long as the government told them it was.

[tangalog2200]

Its addition to that mental illness was probably heavily due to religious cults like the catholic clergy but the Irony of them calling it an illness is the fact the majority of their priests are boy lovers maybe they decided If they removed *******uals from it that somehow they'd be allowed to further carry on their abusing of innocent children.

you don't know you are contradicting yourself!?.....

add? then remove?

are you now insinuating gays are that stupid?

[Haterfree]

I support all in the fight against ***ual degenerates! Thanks Manny P

[original zero]

do gay penguins go to hell?

[Furn]

Gays should have the right to get married and be as miserable as the rest of us.