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This definition of homosexuality as a mental disorder remained until the DSM II was revised in
1973, the same year that the U.S. Supreme Court in the case known as Roe v. Wade, redefined
abortion, rejecting its status as a crime, and declaring it to be a woman’s right. America has now
experienced forty years where the sins of murder of the unborn, and homosexuality, have been
defined as “normal.” The nation has experienced a generation in which behavior that Yahweh
describes as abominable sin has been given protected status, and declared to be a “human right.”
The terrible fruit of this moral collapse is readily observed throughout American society.

The transformation of moral values has been incremental, but quite swift. The first step in
normalizing homosexual behavior was to remove the stigma of it being a heinous moral failure.
This was accomplished when the medical profession in 1952 defined homosexuality as a mental
disorder. Many who were homosexuals viewed this as a great leap forward. No longer were they
judged to be morally depraved. It was far less censorious to be labeled as “sick’ than it was to
bear the stigma of being morally debauched.

For more than two centuries American society had viewed homosexuality as a gross moral
transgression. It was “the crime not to be named,” a reference to the following Scripture.

Ephesians 5:3-12
But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper
among saints... For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous
man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive
you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of
disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them... for it is disgraceful even to speak of the
things which are done by them in secret.

How has a nation moved from viewing homosexual behavior as something disgraceful, a
shameful thing that decent folk would could not speak of without embarrassment, to openly
celebrating it? This shift in societal values is NOT the result of some new scientific discovery. It
is NOT the result of mankind coming out of darkness into the light of truth. Society is becoming
more depraved, more sensual, increasingly selfish, with an exponential increase in crimes
committed against one’s neighbors. Satan is a great deceiver, and he has played upon man’s
irrational honor for those who are educated in the institutions of learning and bear the title of
“Doctor.” Satan has especially used the “Doctors” of the psychiatric field, those who study the