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==Historical Background==

==Historical Background==

In 1963 committee on Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine reported that homosexuality is indeed an illness. The homosexuals are emotionally disturbed individuals who have not acquired the normal capacity to develop satisfying heterosexual relations. Some homosexuals have gone beyond the plane of defensiveness and started to argue that deviancy is a “desirable, noble, preferable way of life.”<ref name="Satinover">{{cite book |title= Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author= Jeffrey Satinover |publisher= Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=1.Neither Scientific nor Democratic|page=|isbn= 9781441212931 |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=jlafJCzJWP4C&pg=PT39&dq=1963+New+York+committee+on+public+health+homosexuals+are+emotionally+disturbed+individuals&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jtDEUb31BqO04AT-koHICw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA }}</ref> After the 1971 annual convention in Washington where attack of gay activists took place, the APA, and leaders of the LGBT movement Kameny and Barbara Gittings negotiated over an imposed presence for homosexuals at the APA conferences.<ref name="Rainbow"/> The way how it happened was that the APA bent over backwards to be understanding and open and left an open door for people to rush in and use it for other than scientific purposes, for political purposes. Gradually it became part of the movement for diversity under the pretence of bringing all under-represented people into psychology. This was a very lofty idea on the surface but it became at the end a bias.<ref name="Cummings"/> Just 10 years later – with no significant new scientific evidence – the homosexual activists’ argument became the new standard within psychiatry.<ref name="Satinover"/>

In 1963 committee on Public Health from the New York Academy of Medicine reported that homosexuality is indeed an illness. The homosexuals are emotionally [[disturbed character|disturbed individuals]] who have not acquired the normal capacity to develop satisfying heterosexual relations. Some homosexuals have gone beyond the plane of defensiveness and started to argue that deviancy is a “desirable, noble, preferable way of life.”<ref name="Satinover">{{cite book |title= Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth |author= Jeffrey Satinover |publisher= Baker Books |year=1996 |chapter=1.Neither Scientific nor Democratic|page=|isbn= 9781441212931 |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=jlafJCzJWP4C&pg=PT39&dq=1963+New+York+committee+on+public+health+homosexuals+are+emotionally+disturbed+individuals&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jtDEUb31BqO04AT-koHICw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA }}</ref> After the 1971 annual convention in Washington where attack of gay activists took place, the APA, and leaders of the LGBT movement Kameny and Barbara Gittings negotiated over an imposed presence for homosexuals at the APA conferences.<ref name="Rainbow"/> The way how it happened was that the APA bent over backwards to be understanding and open and left an open door for people to rush in and use it for other than scientific purposes, for political purposes. Gradually it became part of the movement for diversity under the pretence of bringing all under-represented people into psychology. This was a very lofty idea on the surface but it became at the end a bias.<ref name="Cummings"/> Just 10 years later – with no significant new scientific evidence – the homosexual activists’ argument became the new standard within psychiatry.<ref name="Satinover"/>

1979 APA president Nicholas Cummings<ref>{{cite web |title=Former APA Presidents|publisher=American Psychological Association

1979 APA president Nicholas Cummings<ref>{{cite web |title=Former APA Presidents|publisher=American Psychological Association

|url=http://www.apa.org/about/governance/president/past-presidents.aspx|accessdate=June 21, 2013 |quote=1979  Nicholas A. Cummings, PhD}}</ref>, who was very active in helping gays to be accepted in APA, maintains that gradually cherry-picking scientific results became the [[modus operandi]] and the gay rights movement sort of captured the APA. Further on, an APA committee that considered the possibility of successful reparative therapy would not permit supporters of that therapy on the committee. “[T]his kind of bias prevails in the APA all under the scientific aura,” he said. “[T]he APA has become a monolith. ...The APA has become politically correct. [[Politically correct|Political correctness]] rules not science.”<ref name="Cummings">{{cite web |title=Interview With Dr. Nicholas Cummings at 2011 NARTH Convention in Phoenix Arizona |publisher=NARTH |date=April 3, 2012 |url=http://narth.com/2012/04/2304/ |accessdate=June 21, 2013|quote="Political Correctness Rules, Not Science," Says American Psychological Association Past-President in Interview with Dr. Nicolosi …"Unbiased, Open Research [on Homosexuality] Was Never Done," Says Former A.P.A. President in Interview}}</ref>

|url=http://www.apa.org/about/governance/president/past-presidents.aspx|accessdate=June 21, 2013 |quote=1979  Nicholas A. Cummings, PhD}}</ref>, who was very active in helping gays to be accepted in APA, maintains that gradually cherry-picking scientific results became the [[modus operandi]] and the gay rights movement sort of captured the APA. Further on, an APA committee that considered the possibility of successful reparative therapy would not permit supporters of that therapy on the committee. “[T]his kind of bias prevails in the APA all under the scientific aura,” he said. “[T]he APA has become a monolith. ...The APA has become politically correct. [[Politically correct|Political correctness]] rules not science.”<ref name="Cummings">{{cite web |title=Interview With Dr. Nicholas Cummings at 2011 NARTH Convention in Phoenix Arizona |publisher=NARTH |date=April 3, 2012 |url=http://narth.com/2012/04/2304/ |accessdate=June 21, 2013|quote="Political Correctness Rules, Not Science," Says American Psychological Association Past-President in Interview with Dr. Nicolosi …"Unbiased, Open Research [on Homosexuality] Was Never Done," Says Former A.P.A. President in Interview}}</ref>