Kangaroo Feathers
Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
And? What's your point? Science advances. Homosexuality used to be considered a mental disorder. It isn't know. What's your argument, that homosexuality is a mental disorder because people who mistakenly called it a mental disorder were mistaken to re-classify it? That isn't logical.So the APA admits it used standards from medicine and psychiatry. Trying to pass the onus to the church post facto is hilarious. Talk about trying to pass the buck for its own screw up! The church doesn’t control the APA, it never has.
Since I am not a Christian, I have no onus to defend its position on homosexuality. But the church never called homosexuality a mental disorder. Its position is that it is a “sin”.
It is a fact. Before 1973 the APA defined homosexuality as a mental disorder. Also if it took them decades and decades and decades to stand up to the Christian Church’s position on homosexuality, that belies it is a decidedly craven, feckless and unscientific organization.
Further, I'm still waiting for an example of a mental illness that was declassified as a mental illness, then later re-classified as one.