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Thread #125426   Message #2851469
Posted By: Royston
27-Feb-10 - 07:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Just to put some background on this.

Clinical Psychiatry classed homosexuality as an aberrant, treatable condition. A 'disease' in the true sense of the word; that being homosexual, per se, caused mental harm.

After a long time the profession came to the realisation that homosexuality could not be treated. It had no symptoms, it was natural in other species, as well as humans.

The profession realised that they were treating symptoms - depression, self-loathing, anxiety, self-harm, in a tiny minority of homosexual people where the root-causes of the symptoms were not being homosexual but were the results of how the patient was abused and mistreated and harmed by other people for being homosexual.

So the profession realised it had simply been wrong, and reversed its position. The "problem" was societal prejudice, of which the clinicalisation of homosexuality had been a prime-mover.

Yes, some pseudo-scientists argue differently. They normally have quite obvious politico-socio-religious affiliations. They are a fringe group as in creationists, global warming-deniers and the like.

Only ignorant, ranting bigots pay them regard - because ignorant ranting bigots appreciate, selectively, what they have to say, Keith.