There are also many medical professionals within my family (mostly doctors and lawers in my family… I’m the oddball and chose a IT field) who have stated the medical problems that are presented within these articles to me.

The vast majority of professional medical, social working, nursing, and psychological groups do not agree with you, or the few, mostly conservative and Christian groups you listed, that homosexuality is a disease.
I wonder how many times we’ve dealt with this exact same issue on this blog? LOL. If I had a dime… 🙂

Fitzgibbons: Homosexuality was diagnosed and treated as a psychiatric illness — abnormal behavior — until 1973, when it was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in psychiatry because of political pressure. (emphasis in original)

this tells me Dr. Fitzgibbons isn’t interested in the facts about sexual orientation, just that he wants to repeat over used misrepresentations. and it looks like the rest of his comments are similarly biased interpretations of other’s work.
http://www.narth.com/docs/whitehead.html
Ah NARTH, I knew they would show up on your list. I’ll assume you are new here, but NARTHs credibility on these issues was shoot down on this blog long ago.
http://www.ncfpc.org/FNC/0707S3.html
http://www.wpaag.org/Homosexuals%20and%20Same%20Sex%20Marriage.htm
these last 2 are conservative christian web sites that are just pushing their anti-gay agenda.
The problem with your (and your sources) arguments are way you (pl) are using the research. You (and they) are not looking at medical research the way it was intended, which is to determine causes of illness and find ways to prevent and/or cure them. Instead, what you are doing is trying to use the research to condemn a class of people you don’t like. And the problem with that (other than the condemn those you don’t like part) is that you are taking just the bits that support your political views and ignoring the rest, which ends up misrepresenting what the original research actually says and is deceptive at best.

This blog includes participants from a variety of viewpoints who typically have a common concern over misinformation particularly in the area of sexual identity, politics and the culture wars that ensue. Again .. though we have diverse views..we have a common concern for people and how they are treated.

Well said.

Those who call themselves Christians and advocate the killing of homosexuals, for example, do not hold to the proper Christian Doctrines.

And of the thousands of Christian groups that exist, please tell me which ones hold to the Proper Christian Doctrines? You’ll find so many Christian groups that interpret the Bible differently, I’m curious to know which ones you believe are proper.

Obviously some of this is guess work on my part and we may never know what really happened here but the reallity is that it is the adults who are raising their children .. not vice versa .. it is the adults that are misinforming their children on how to treat others and it is that adults that have turned a point of moral disagreement into a vendetta. Your aiming of your anger at a child misses the target.

Dave, you are right up to a certain point in life. You and I appeare to disagree on when that point is. I think 14 years old is old enough to know better, the boy is in high school after all, I think 14 is old enough since apparently this has been repeated behaviour on his part. (Again I will be the first to change my opinion if the facts are different than what I believe them to be). I don’t know Dave it seems to me the way you write to me, that you are more or less giving Dakota a free pass based on his age and this bothers me. The sexual minority children commit bullicide because of Dakota and his group, I think you abe being to lienent on Dakota, blaming his parents instead of Dakota. That is my impression. Dave 14 is old enough, especially when he is provoking. And yes if he goes through life and maintains this behaviour what are we to think of him? How is he to be treated? Dakota is in control of his destiny, the bullied sexual minority children are not in cntrol, they can’t make it stop.

This blog includes participants from a variety of viewpoints who typically have a common concern over misinformation particularly in the area of sexual identity, politics and the culture wars that ensue. Again .. though we have diverse views..we have a common concern for people and how they are treated.
Dave

Perfect.