Burly rugby player has a stroke wakes up gay

I completely agree. Homosexuality went from being a mental disorder to a planet wide diagnosis of heterosexuals having a mental disorder.

The way the word gets flung about excessively in discussions for decades now...would make anyone with a lick of intelligence understand it was completely political on the heels of the completely political APA decision decades ago.

 

I do not understand why the gay agenda refuses to admit that the two are fundamentally no different. Where I disagree with you is that neither of them are wrong! You say pedophiles are sick and disgusting, but that is exactly what everyone said about gays several decades ago. One day pedophiles will become sexually liberated like gays. It is only a matter of time.

If homosexuality can in fact be "switched on and off", that is not necessarily a good thing. We live in a society where people are getting sex change surgeries, and extreme body modifications. Who is to say that turning gay will not become a new trend? Look at the youth with their "emo" and "metrosexual" culture.

 

I said my back!

 

I once worked for a coy in the Health Care field where one of the psychiatrists wormed his way onto the Board. Boy did he have some pscho problems.You certainly would not not have wanted to be one of his patients. In his mind, everyone had a mental disorder.Here is an example from The INQUISITR:

'American psychiatrists are pushing to have bitterness classified as a mental illness.

'The proposed “post-traumatic embitterment disorder” (we’re not making this up) is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder, and would cover people who a “seething for revenge” after a trauma.

“They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It’s one step more complex than anger. They’re angry plus helpless,” Dr. Michael Linden told the L.A. Times. “Embitterment is a violation of basic beliefs,…It causes a very severe emotional reaction. . . . We are always coping with negative life events. It’s the reaction that varies.”

According to the report, around 1% to 2% of all Americans suffer from post-traumatic embitterment disorder.'

 

Do you think there will be disability claims?

And if so, do you think they'd be filed most often under mental or physical disability?

 

Why do you need to watch your back?

 

the term "homophobic' is used far too often and unfairly quite often.

 

I have one word for you: Eugenics.

 

Hyperbole. There is not point in trying to have a discussion with someone who resorts to such extreme statements. Guess what it earned you.

 

I cannot understand why the anti-gay agenda insists upon conflating the two and pretending they're no different. It would seem to be motivated by an irrational hatred of gay people. There's a word for that. A couple that apply, actually.

There is no "if" here because it can't be. "Deciding" not to be gay anymore doesn't achieve it, and there is nothing about the case before us that suggests a medical intervention would be possible or effective, either. Believing otherwise is the product of overly simplistic thinking. The brain is a complex organ that we barely understand.

Jumping to conclusions based upon bias-inspired conjecture is a poor substitute for sound reasoning and relying on verifiable facts.

Wow. Just...wow. You really believe all these things are equivalents? You really believe that "turning gay" would become trendy? Seems you've made the classic mistake of interpreting gayness as merely behavioral, and therefore something one could choose.

You're getting colder, wandering further and further from the truth.

 

And objected to far too often by people unwilling to confront their own prejudices.

 

ever think that those using the term are unwilling to confront their own prejudices?

 

Seriously? That's all you've got to say? "right back atcha" is a response more suited to the playground than an adult discussion of complex issues.

 

are insults all you have?

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it's not a complex issue at all

 

Not an insult, an observation. You can either agree with that observation or disagree with. Characterizing it as an insult is nothing more than avoidance.

...in your opinion. I hold a different opinion. Do you have anything of relevance to say on the matter beyond one-liner declarations of your opinion?

 

seems you ask for tolerance without offering any in return

no avoidance. Just an observation

 

No, it doesn't. It shows that someone is lying.

If someone has a stroke and wakes up with less motor control, does that mean they have a mental disorder? No. Your premise is ridiculous.

 

That's ridiculous. Why allege that?

 

No one is afraid of homosexuals...the word 'homophobe' is meaningless. There is however, a palpable fear of heterosexuals by homosexuals therefore the term 'heterophobia' does apply.

 

You aren't showing that you know what you're talking about. Both the words "homophobia" and "homophobe" have specific meanings. You are displaying willful ignorance, IMO.

Few to none use the word "heterophobia" (I'm not even going to add to my spell-checker.)

In any case, I'd say that more than a few homosexuals have valid and reasonable fears related to MANY "heterosexuals" (since they are so often abused and discriminated against by them); and THAT is no "phobia". And homosexuals don't typically have/show irrational animus toward heterosexual people either.

 

Heterophobe and Heterophobia also both have 'specific' meanings. Heterosexuals do not really fear homosexuals they just realize that some folks are aberrant in their sexual behavior.

 

This comment made me LOL:

 

So on the question of whether or not you have anything of relevance to say, the answer is clearly 'no' then.

 

Because there are people who, if they had the power, would definitely go down that path.

See the comments about 'flipping the switch' in this very thread.

 

Who uses the word "heterophobia"; it's not so meaningful. But go ahead and use it, you insist and I don't mind.

You are incorrect; yet you say things as if you know. It's arrogant.

Whatever. Look, you don't get to define the English language; all we can do is USE THE WORDS, not create the language. Sorry.