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   From: mixmaster@remailer.cpunk.us   
      
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   Phillip  wrote:   
   >   
   > On 17 Oct 2013, PATRICK  posted some   
   > news:03ov591dhrsmqdc5fjm6892165v8t35klq@4ax.com:   
   >   
   > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:08:42 -0500, Mitchell Holman   
   > > wrote:   
   > >   
   > >>J  wrote in   
   > >>news:b1hu59ljq73j1moir84gi6g6oidqf16fnf@4ax.com:   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >>> An interesting aspect of this is that homosexuality actually does meet   
   > >>> the APA’s present criterion for a mental illness!  The criterion is:   
   > >>> “… a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or   
   > >>> pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with   
   > >>> present distress…or disability…or with a significantly increased risk   
   > >>> of suffering death, pain, disability or an important loss of freedom.”   
   > >>> (DSM-IV-TR, p xxxi)  Although conditions for gay people have improved   
   > >>> considerably since 1974, they are still subject to ridicule,   
   > >>> discrimination, and violence.   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >>    So an illness should be defined by the   
   > >>reaction to it by the most ignorant elements   
   > >>of society?   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > That is what happened, didn't it?   
   >   
   > Indeed.  Before homosexuals made a stealth incursion into the APA, much   
   > like they did the Roman Catholic Church, homosexuality was where it   
   > belonged.  It was categorized as a mental illness and deservedly so.   
      
   Then we can say all democrats are mentally ill for supporting   
   homosexuality?   
      
       
      
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