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   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   RamRod Sword of Baal wrote...   
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   > "Altan Loker (real name)"  wrote in message   
   > news:3bc69a82-a8d4-4fdf-989f-55fb0e0ea872@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...   
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   >> Homosexuality used to be considered a mental disorder, a personality   
   >> disorder. The Editors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of   
   >> Mental Disorders (DSM) got together and discussed for several hours   
   >> the nature of homosexuality. They decided that it was not a mental   
   >> disorder but just a sexual preference.   
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   > It was the American Psychiatric Association who decided in their wisdom   
   > that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, let us get that correct   
   > and you disagree with them, so it is you against the majority of all   
   > those learned Doctors in the the APA..............................   
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   >   
   > I think that says it all.   
      
   But prior to that time the majority of all the learned "doctors" in the   
   APA agreed that it was a mental disorder.  Either psychiatry was wrong   
   before or it is wrong now, but it was wrong about something.  Now the   
   same psychiatry goes around telling us to ignore what it said before   
   but to accept what it says now without question (if we question it we   
   are diagnosed as mentally defective and given shock treatment to cure   
   our attitude).   
      
   Also be careful about using the term "doctor" to describe psychologists,   
   because their title refers to a doctorate in PHILOSOPHY and not medical   
   science.  A psychiatrist is a medical doctor, but his specialty is the   
   philosophical field of psychology.  The medical doctor's Ph.D. could be   
   in fashion design, but that doesn't make the wardrobe makeover he gives   
   you medical or scientific in any way, even if it does make you feel   
   better.   
      
   I love analogies so I'll keep going with fashion.  Several decades ago   
   the majority of fashion experts agreed that wearing white shoes after   
   Labor Day was cosmetically defective and it was defined as a fashion   
   disorder and sufferers subjected to public humiliation and even arrest   
   in Southern states.  Today almost everyone wears white shoes at some   
   point after Labor Day and not only doesn't anyone think it's abnormal,   
   anyone who trips out on the white shoe rule is perceived as suffering   
   from an OCD mental disorder and humiliated on the Dr. Phil show.  Of   
   course it doesn't really matter because fashion doesn't purport to be   
   scientific, and today's fashion trends don't mean previous fashion   
   trends were "wrong."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)