There's no onus on you to prove your "suggestion"?
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Not really, because at this point, there's nothing for me to rebut.
> I think you're putting words in Doug's mouth. He said nothing about making
> something a disorder in the clinical sense.
What do you imagine a "phobia" to be?
What authority would he have for that anyway?
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An excellent question - to ask Doug.
> If you think it's a non-story, tell it to the people in Florida whose lives
> this guy is helping fuck up.
>
That's gotta be one of the saddest examples of vapid moralizing I've ever seen on this list.
> As far as it being a disorder, there does seem to be at least more evidence
> for that than there is for the vague suggestion that "material needs of
> previous societies" somehow shaped attitudes toward homosexuality.
>
So how about presenting some of this supposed evidence?
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:
You never read the Starr Report?
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No, I didn't. I had, and have, better reading material. But I'm as familiar with its contents as anyone living in civilization at the time. What on earth is your point about it?
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