That is the justification given for the capitulation by APA to militant homosexuals who forced declassification of homosexuality. The decision that homosexuality is a normal variant of sexuality has been reached by consensus. Consequently, the supposed organization of mental health professionals have been pushing the research to go one way, justification of the controversial declassification. It has been four decades since, and the best analysis that can be made based on the few that appears to be representative and unbiased is this: the etiology of homosexuality is multi-factorial.
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Dear InSearchofGrace,
Cordial greetings and a very good day. That was a jolly splendid post if I may say. All bang on target.
It is very telling that the American Psychiatric Association voted to exclude homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders. This change in perception rests upon the supposition that the homosexual condition is biologically determined and unchangeable. A great deal of the current literature focuses on the need to help homosexuals embrace their sexuality (in other words embrace a lifestyle that is intrinsically disordered, involving detestable and unnatural acts of depravity) and cope with discrimination. Indeed, there are those within the APA who have even been calling for a ban on reparative therapy to change the homosexual pre-disposition as if this cruel and even impossible (cf. I Cor. 6: 9-11).
Moreover, dear friend, now that homosexuality has attained non-pathological status it has become increasingly difficult to ask fundamental questions or to undertake research which dares to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy. As one commentator has put it, “this is and area,
par excellence, where scientific objectivity has little chance of survival” (J. Bancroft).
Incontrovertably, dear friend, the APA is manifestly not objective and impartial and would appear to be favourably disposed to the homosexual activist movement. There is no homosexual ‘gene’ but sinful man must always find some ‘why’ to account for the fact that a minority of the population suffers with the homosexual condition. The Catholic faithful should not fall for this nonsense but treat it with the contempt that it so rightly deserves.
The homosexual condition is in any case
not a mental illness (though it is often its cause) but rather sad evidence of man’s fallen estate on account of Original Sin. Moreover, man is already born into an imperfect world and brings with him a wounded nature that is continually manifesting itself in divers ways, homosexual deviant behaviour being just one such way. Unfortunately, dear friend, our personalities are complexes of all manner of sinful desires and no aspect of our humanity escapes unscathed and that includes our sexuality. We may, therefore, inherit various tendencies to revolt against the Maker’s good order of things and we may, alas, respond in a sinful way to the many influences to which we are subjected. This is simply a part of the fallen human condition and it is on this that we ought to focus. Catholics, therefore, should resist becoming embroiled in supposedly ‘scientific’ arguments that have more to do with defending and promoting homosexual vice as an alternative lifestyle. We are concerned not with some pseudo scientific classification of homosexuality but rather with morality and how homosexuality fits in with that framework.
Having said this, dear friend, I would not stop to deny that other issues have to be factored in as regards the
development of a homosexual tendency (e.g. parent-child relationships; peer interactions; homosexual parent and of course child molestation). This is not a case of wishing to retreat into a supposedly simplistic analysis, however the homosexual condition must always be traced back to an unhappy consequence of the sinful Fall of our race, for
that is its true genesis.
Finally, dear friend, a Catholic must always maintain that the homosexual predisposition originates with our wounded nature and is not a mental illness. As we all know the concept of illness can all too easily be expounded at the expense of the concept of moral failure - something which our morally degenerate age is very want to do. Moreover, to identify sinful actions as a sickness is surely a triumph of medicine over morals - indeed, it spells the end of all moral judgment, which is probably the ultimate objective of pseudo science.
God bless and thankyou for your excellent (name removed by moderator)ut to the discussion.
Warmest good wishes,
Portrait
In Christos
Well mostly, Classification is a valid function of science. Determining whether the theory behind the classification is false or not is the work science.