Wednesday, May 24, 2006
This argument is plain wrong!

Ian McKellen a homosexual actor known for his fight for gay rights, mentioned that X-men was a story "close to my heart". "As a gay man, some people think (homosexuality) ought to be cured and made normal again -- an idea I find as offensive as saying to somebody they should have a cure for the colour of their skin, or a cure for their inborn race," he said. I find his argument totally warped. As warped as his sexual preference. It is a disease that ought to be cured, and they do have drugs to control it. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality from its diagnostic list of mental disorders in 1973, this was despite substantial protest (see Socarides, 1995). The APA was strongly motivated by the desire to reduce the effects of social oppression. They were also under pressure from powerful gays in the community. This set the wheel in motion and one of the effect of the APA's action was to add psychiatric authority to gay activists' insistence that homosexuals as a group are as healthy as heterosexuals. There you go, homosexuality was 'normalised' though some political bullshitting... This has discouraged the publication of research that suggests there may, in fact, be psychiatric problems associated with homosexuality. There you go, homosexuality is not to be compared to with skin colour. It is a disorder that ought to be classified together with pedophilia, necrophilia and other sexual disorders. Should a pedophile become powerful in the US, they're probably gonna legalise child sex and 'normalise' pedophilia too!

# Crapped by Toadjuice on 5/24/2006 02:35:00 pm