nor has anyone decided that those with strong religious convictions should be the arbiter of our moral values.

psychologists and psychiatrists are human. like all humans they are predominantly religious, most of my colleagues profess a christian faith, although there are growing numbers of muslim medical people in australia. as professionals, they do not let their religion guide their understanding of evidence.

garysher, you are sounding increasingly like a paranoid conspiracy theorist. our agenda, to destroy the fabric of civilization as we know it, starting by allowing gay marraige, infiltrating the ranks of universities and professional organisations with our spies, silencing dissent, killing God, with the aim to control the world !!!

the APA has not tried to impose morality on you. they have accepted the weight of evidence that illustrates homosexuality as a variation of normal healthy human sexuality. they have accepted that there is nothing wrong with it, that it fits well into our understanding of humanity in every field from sociology to evolution. of interest, the WHO, AMA, and every other professional organisation in the world have also accepted the same evidence in the same light. nobody is imposing anything. quite the opposite, they are recognising that past impositions and restrictions were unfair as they were no more than social prejudices dressed up as science.

what you do with this information is up to you. your morality is your decision.