In the three years during which the American Psychological Association’s “Homosexuality Task Force” was deliberating, it collaborated with numerous homosexual activist groups, including the Gay Activist’s Alliance, the Mattachine Society, and the Daughters of Bilitis, while systematically ignoring organizations with views that disagreed with the activists.Īt about the same time, Abram Kardiner, former Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, revealed, “A powerful lobby of ‘gay’ organizations has brought pressure on the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the category of aberrancy. After all, society would not look very kindly upon civil rights lobbying done by groups whose members were recognized as “mentally disordered” by the medical profession. These activists recognized that such a move was necessary if they were to win public acceptance. In 1968, representatives of homosexual rights groups approached leading psychiatrists and psychologists and began to lay the groundwork for the reclassification of their lifestyle as a normal and healthy manifestation of human sexuality.
Their acceptance of homosexuality was purely political, the result of a relentless campaign of deception, intimidation, outright violence and unethical collusion between elitist APA/APA committees and activist homosexual groups. What they do not mention, of course, is that these organizations did not base their changes of opinion on scholarly studies or new scientific evidence.
Homosexual activists often mention that the medical profession-specifically psychiatrists and psychologists-believe that homosexuality is a “normal human sexual response.” In support of this assertion, they talk about how the American Psychological Association officially removed homosexuality from its list of “mental disorders” in 1973, and that the American Psychiatric Association also classifies homosexuality as normal.
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