Hi everyone,
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Originally Posted by guccilvr
I don't see why people would think of it as a disease either.. that's plain crazy.
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just a couple of my thoughts on this subject. First thing is that there were a group of homosexuals a while back that tried to prove homosexuality was genetic. They did this, presumably, so that the establishment of homosexual marriages would be made legal nationwide. What their study showed was that there were a couple links between homosexuals. One had to do with an undersized gland located in the brain, and the other involved a missing...forgive my inspecificity...thing within a homosexual's chromozomes. Now, these studies were later revealed to be totally innaccurate and not necessarily true as I understand it. So, homosexuality being attributed to an underdeveloped gland or a missing, "thing", could be called a "disease" or "disorder" or "defect."
Second thing... It is typical for members of any species to have urges, contrary to procreation, when they have some otherwise unidentifiable condition. I think homosexuals, as well as heterosexuals that have no children and/or no desire to have children, may be suffering from some kind of ailment. Something potentially unidentifiable. Something that is making them not want to pair up in the appropriate fashion for procreation. So, here's another linking that could make you think it was a "disease" or "disorder" or what have you.
umm, forgive me everyone, this probably belongs on some other thread, but I wanted to respond to that and I got a little wordy. Just so no one gets the wrong idea... I'm not a hater! I'm just looking at it in a way I don't see many people look at it. I am persuadeable, so if you think I'm wrong, change my mind.
Oh, and as to the actual thread topic :-). These being reasons to think of it as a disease or disorder, or what have you means that its quite allright for people to consider themselves or others as Struggling. Does is mean they're actually struggling? Not necessarily. The problem isn't that people are labelling others, the problem is that they're trying to CHANGE others. You'd think we, as a people, would have figured out by now that people don't change through labelling and harsh criticism. Only through calm debate......and occasional revolution.