From the church heresy trial of Jimmy Creech by the Methodists,
after he performed a commitment ceremony for two women:
Now the research has been done. Homosexuality is not a 'sin', a 'crime'
or a 'sickness'. People who still use those old labels, are really saying
nothing more than "We disapprove of homosexuality or we dislike
homosexuals."
Something for the Tank's pages on Christianity and the crimes against
gay people? :)
Gregory Herek, Full Research Psychologist, University of California at
Davis: (
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow)
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"In times past, religious leaders supported their ignorance about
homosexuality by calling it a 'sin'. Secular authorities by calling it
a 'crime'. Psychologists and psychiatrists by calling it a 'sickness'.