Under conservative assault, the Vatican backtracks on gay comments

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30. Indeed! Good point.

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And exactly the reason I used the phrase "pseudo-psychological".

Same-gender sexual attraction had disappeared as a diagnosis of "pathological disorder" from the DSM-IV when I was studying psychology in the early 80s. The stigma attached to gays and gay sex (gasp!) was recognized as being a cultural prejudice, not a valid clinical diagnosis of anything but generalized homophobia of the body politic.

In the same way some of us no longer beat children for using their left (the "devil's&quot hand and force them to write with their right hand, all modern decent people recognize homosexuality as being simply another one of those "infinite variations in infinite diversity" that contribute to the glory and multiplicity of choices for certain self-actualized men and women of a queer nature.