RE: Gay Marriage - are you for or against it and why?
March 2, 2011 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2011 at 11:42 am by OnlyNatural.)
(March 2, 2011 at 11:11 am)Dotard Wrote: I maintain it's compairing apples and oranges. An abnormal pet or extra digit on an extremity is not a parallel compairison to a sexual disorder.
Disorder being defined as an irregularity, a disturbance, a malady, a deviation from the normal.
For something to be a disorder/malady, it would also have to involve some sort of suffering or harm (to self and/or others) and an inability to function optimally (ie. can't hold down a job, have trouble getting through the day). Homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) precisely because it didn't involve harm or functional impairment in the way that mental illnesses do.