so Jesus can get disability pension =)

yeah, Homosexuality is an act that opposes nature in every single way.

Though this should'nt be considered as a Mental Disease, it should be considered an act that give rise to mental diseases.

The thing is that yes homosexuality in it's raw form IS a disease. Not a mental disease much more a hormonal disbalance issue, but yep it is a disease.

Should we judge people for being ill?

Hell no.

We do not judge a guy with a broken arm, or cancer. So why should we judge a person with some hormonal issues, that caused him to be gay.

Yep that's an abnormality. But it is a personal decision of every person how to live with it.

If the world had attacked AIDS as aggressively as they're attacking bird flu, the disease would have been completely eradicated within a few months. But the homosexual lobby and their gullible liberal supporters didn't allow it. So now, we have a situation where 25% of male homosexuals in San Francisco have AIDS. In Baltimore, that figure shoots to 40%. And that doesn't count IV drug users and careless heterosexuals. AIDS is devastating Africa. And all because homosexuals want the world to believe that their orientation is somehow "normal." It isn't, and here is why.

Homosexuality is a mental illness. Period. It is morally reprehensible to allow people with destructive mental illnesses to harm themselves. We frown upon neurotic teens cutting themselves. We treat eating disorders. We have laws against suicide. We even drug our children if they fidget in school. So, why do we allow people who get pleasure from deviant sexual practices to engage in destructive behavior that decimates their population? Long before the advent of AIDS, homosexuals were the walking wounded. Because of their perverse sexual practices, a large percentage of them were inflicted with gay bowel syndrome, a blanket term covering a large number of infections, illnesses, injuries, etc. Sex, when engaged in morally, properly and naturally, should not injure, infect, nor kill.

Homosexual apologists point to the fact that the American Psychiatric Association does not regard homosexuality as a mental illness. It is certainly true that the APA removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973. But this sudden change in attitude was not based on any new scientific evidence. It was a purely political move, induced by a relentless saturation campaign of deception, intimidation, and unethical collusion between the APA committee and activist homosexual groups. You can find plenty of evidence of this by simply looking for it. You're on the Internet, use it.

Just the concept of a group of medical professionals voting away an affliction is bizarre in the extreme. Why doesn't the AMA simply decide that cancer is not a disease? Voilà! Cancer is just a natural way of dying. No need to spend billions trying to find a cure!

Homosexuality is natural? What is the most basic function of every living thing on the face of the earth? Reproduction. Homosexuals do not reproduce -- not if they are strictly practicing their odd method of sexual relations. If all homosexuals were confined to a remote island, they would die out in one generation. Could anything be more unnatural? This is also an argument against homosexuality being hereditary. Since homosexuals do not typically reproduce, if there were a "gay gene," it would be bred out of the population in just a few generations.

The defenders of homosexuality also say that what consenting adults do in the bedroom is nobody's business. Says who? I don't believe I've seen that "right" in any of our Founding Documents. And since when have homosexuals been content to confine their activities to the bedroom? Or does that "right" extend to libraries, public restrooms, public parks, etc.?

Homosexuality is a sin. The Bible clearly states that homosexuality is not only a sin, but a mortal sin, resulting in the death of the eternal soul. But, this is an argument I never use. It's difficult enough to reason with unreasoning people without bringing God into the equation. When you do that, you suddenly have two arguments and have to convince a person that, say, abortion is murder, AND that God exists. He can simply dismiss both your arguments by saying he doesn't believe in God, or doesn't believe in your god, as if he could fly by not believing in gravity. God doesn't depend on people's belief to exist. He isn't Tinkerbell.

Yet, as obvious as all these facts are, nothing is obvious to liberals. Homosexuals, who comprise only about two percent of our population, are getting more and more powerful, now teaching their agenda to public school children as young as five. That's what happens when you have liberals with no moral compass in charge of our educational system or able to influence our medical system or any other institution in our country.

Liberalism is deadly.

Yes, right up there with liberalism ;)

How is it any different to say, a peadophile ?

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This debate is ridiculous. Whilst it is true that homosexuality is a biological issue due to under production of male hormones in the womb, it certainly isn't a disease.

"Once viewed by authorities as a pathology or mental illness to be cured, homosexuality is now more often investigated as part of a larger impetus to understand the biology, psychology, politics, genetics, history and cultural variations of sexual practice and identity. "

"Homosexual sexual behavior occurs in the animal kingdom, especially in social species, particularly in marine birds and mammals, monkeys, and the great apes. Homosexual behavior has been observed among 1,500 species, and in 500 of those it is well documented. This discovery constitutes a major argument against those calling into question the biological legitimacy or naturalness of homosexuality, or those regarding it as a meditated social decision. For example, male penguin couples have been documented to mate for life, build nests together, and to use a stone as a surrogate egg in nesting and brooding. In a well-publicized story from 2004, the Central Park Zoo in the United States replaced one male couple's stone with a fertile egg, which the couple then raised as their own offspring."

no. as much as i would like to piss off GLAD members, they're gay cause of many different reasons that you can't exactly prevent.

No, of course not. To be classified as a mental disease, it must be shown to interfere with the person (and those around him/her) living a complete and happy life. There are many happy, productive homosexuals. Therefore, it's not a disease.

By analogy, drinking alcohol is in itself not a disease. It only becomes the disease alcoholism when the alcoholic's need for alcohol intereferes with his or her ability to hold down a job, maintain a family, etc.

Sexual preference is a mater of choice. Homosexual people decides what they think is just and this has nothing to do with their mental ability to decide.

Homosexuals are just people who like their own kind. whats wronmg with that?

They are always doing BULL-SHIT studies that say that homosexuals have half of their brain smaller than the other half. and I repeat: B-U-L-L - S-H-I-T! I have good friends that are homosexual and their is nothing wrong with their intelligence. NOTHING! Whoever thinks that they are is really a dumbass!

No, because it's an easy label without any scientific solid base. This label only supports a point of view, not a generic opinion or single truth and therefore can't be used in a correct way.

No.

Sexuality is just a preference.

Some people like rock music, and others like pop, in the same way some people prefer members of the same sex.

Definition of mental disease:

Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention.

Homosexuality is at most mental abnormality because of societies label of it being so.

If society didn't label this so there would no need whatsoever to psychiatric intervention(Note: most homosexuals who do request psychiatric intervention do so out of pressure, it is hard for them to live in a society that doesn't accept them,this doesn't prove need however,only social pressure.)

The essence of homosexuality in this case is as logical or illogical as that of heterosexuals and bisexuals.

Conclusion: Homosexuality can not be labeled a mental disease unless you labeled heterosexuality so as well.

Ugh, disgusting. Being gay is not a disease. Mental or otherwise. Like someone on the other side said it's some chemical thing that happens in the brain before you're born. I'm not looking it up, I don't care. But the same kind of chemical reactions also make you like Brocolli or whatever. NO, it's not like cancer, or losing a leg, whoever that guy was who said it. A little knowledge in the wrong hands is a dangerous thing I guess. It's more like being born with blue eyes or brown you silly bastard.

And we're all a little gay, including you and me cowboy. Don't get your hopes up though I'm only interested in girls. Consequently, people who are afraid of or hate gays usually are, so if any homos are looking for a date, find the most ignorant comments on the left hand side and get in touch. Just don't expect to cuddle afterwards, they'll hate themselves until they get horney again.

Is being left handed a disease either? For a while, left handed people were treated, in some ways, the same as homosexuals. They were told to change, that it was wrong, and were forced to use their right hand instead. I think you can see the similarities.

Gee, I don't know. Should being a different race? A different religion? Should having green eyes? Maybe preffering McCain over Obama? How about liking Grey's Anatomy over ER? I like eating chicken in a biscuit crackers with chocolate chip cookies, does that make me weird?

The point is, people are who they are. They are the way God made them. Being Gay is no different than liking vanilla over chocolate. Its just who they are, it's never going to change, so people should just accept it.

My answer of course being a big fat NO, homosexuality is not a mental disease, anymore than being an ignorant bigot is.

Crazy!

No, it is a state of mind in my opinion...

I think homosexuals tell themselves they're homosexual and choose to live that way...

I watched an episode of Dr. Phil (don't laugh ;) ) Where a man said he believed he was born homosexual, and chose to live heterosexual because he believed God wanted him too.

God says men shall not lie with men and women with women....I agree...Homosexuality is a choice..Not an illness

How is homosexuality a mental disease? It's a part of who a person is; it's a trait that a person is born with. This simply doesn't make sense.

Hell no.

No its not a Mental Disease, majority of them are only highly intellectual. Look inside a mental hospital if you can find many homosexual there if there's any. And because most of them are very intelligent people, they were able to convince us that they are normal people too who are very gay being homosexual. They too know that they are living in a habitual sin but believes that God loves them. It's not a Mental Disease, because it is called "Spiritual Disease".

The problem with classifying homosexuality as a disease means that we should start looking for a cure and I don't think the gay community wants to be cured.

Having said that then the next logical step would be to say that homosexuality is a life style choice, but who would chose to be gay? I mean, I could see choosing to be bi-sexual in order to increase your chances of getting laid but just plain gay?

is it wrong to like pussy when you have one?

or to want cock up ur ass or to stick yours up someone elses ass?

no it shouldnt

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