The NAACP tragedy
The NAACP's absurd and ill-advised decision to declare same-sex "marriage" a civil right is a tragedy that deprives a noble organization with a glorious heritage of all future credibility.
Or rather, it has just as much (and just as little) credibility as the American Psychiatric Association does after its totally political, rather than scientific, decision in 1973-74 to declare homosexuality non-pathological. The little-known story of how homosexuality became officially "normal" is told here. Don't count on seeing it told many other places, though.
One thing should be said on behalf the NAACP decision: as ill-advised as it was, it had a great deal more integrity than the APA decision to "de-pathologize" homosexuality did. As a APA member asked at the time, "What are we going to declare normal next- schizophrenia?"
Or rather, it has just as much (and just as little) credibility as the American Psychiatric Association does after its totally political, rather than scientific, decision in 1973-74 to declare homosexuality non-pathological. The little-known story of how homosexuality became officially "normal" is told here. Don't count on seeing it told many other places, though.
One thing should be said on behalf the NAACP decision: as ill-advised as it was, it had a great deal more integrity than the APA decision to "de-pathologize" homosexuality did. As a APA member asked at the time, "What are we going to declare normal next- schizophrenia?"
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