American Psychological Association Supports Same-sex ‘Marriage’ 157-0

American Psychological Association Supports Same-sex ‘Marriage’ 157-0 WASHINGTON, D.C., The American Psychological Association (APA) has re-affirmed its support for same-sex “marriage” for the eighth …More
American Psychological Association Supports Same-sex ‘Marriage’ 157-0
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
The American Psychological Association (APA) has re-affirmed its support for same-sex “marriage” for the eighth consecutive year, this time with a more strongly-worded statement.
The APA has backed “marriage” for homosexual couples since 2004, and marriage-like benefits since 1997, and now calls itself “a strong advocate for full equal rights for LGBT people for nearly 35 years.”
The position paper now asserts that “many gay men and lesbians, like their heterosexual counterparts, desire to form stable, long-lasting and committed intimate relationships and are successful in doing so,” and that campaigns to uphold traditional marriage are “a significant source of stress” to homosexuals. LifeSiteNews.com
St. Lawrence
10 August 2011
ACLumsden
@SBpfu - In past centuries, the Church performed many exorcisms upon patients who, we now know, we mentally ill (dementia, skyzophrenic, bi-polar, etc.). The knowledge of the illnesses was just not there. With learning and advancement in medicine, we now know that an exocism can only be performed AFTER a clean bill of psychological health is issued by competent professionals.
So too, perhaps in …More
@SBpfu - In past centuries, the Church performed many exorcisms upon patients who, we now know, we mentally ill (dementia, skyzophrenic, bi-polar, etc.). The knowledge of the illnesses was just not there. With learning and advancement in medicine, we now know that an exocism can only be performed AFTER a clean bill of psychological health is issued by competent professionals.

So too, perhaps in the medical world, regarding homosexuality being an illness,say in the 80s, but now according to the DSM, is not. Now, because we do not know enough about the origins of homsexuality, I think that one ought to keep to Church teaching on this matter and not speculate into psychiatric or psychological roots of homosexuality.

I prefer to leave this 'causal' study to the professionals and to God. However, the Church's teaching is indeed clear: homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and are grave mortal sins indeed! Herein lies the point at which Church and science deviate from each other, viz. God's law and man's lack of understanding leading to a rejection of God's Law.