Actually this WAS the first time that this "vote" happened in the APA. There is a board or as you put it "a commitee" that makes these decisions.

Here's a link.
and a c@p...
Opponents of the ruling circulated petitions, issued angry statements and forced the A.P.A. into unprecedented action: this month, for the first time in the A.P.A.'s 129-year history, a board decision is being put to a vote of the association's entire 21,000 members.

Once again showing another exception made for this human abnormality.

How the hell do you think you can debate this topic intelligently if you don't know what the hell you are talking about?

Here's a blog that breaks it down quite nicely...
Also, the final tally was not impressive. The vote was 5,584 to 3,810 out of about 30,000 APA members, meaning that only about 37 percent of the APA took part in the decision.
In total, only approximately 20 percent of the organization actually said yes to removal, meaning that as much as 80 percent of the APA in 1973 might have opposed removal.

They are still man and woman. What should change?

"The journal sent questionnaires to 10,000 members of the A.P.A., and compiled the first 2,500 responses. Of those answering, 69% said they believed "homosexuality is usually a pathological adaptation, as opposed to a normal variation,"

Interesting only 69% of APA psychologists believe homosexuality is a "pathological adaptation".

Hillary got 67% yesterday and everone wants her to quit the race!!

Other interesting responses from the darling APA:

-Sizable majorities said that homosexuals are generally less happy than heterosexuals (73%) and less capable of mature, loving relationships (60%).

-70% said homosexuals' problems have more to do with their own inner conflicts than with stigmatization by society at large. Many of the doctors doubted that homosexuals could be trusted with important jobs.

-43% of the therapists agredd that "homosexuals generally a greater risk than heterosexuals to hold positions of great responsibility"

I wonder how often we will have to post this information before the other side accepts it?

Anybody who has had any lingering doubts as to the honesty of garysher - please read the above quote printed in black, to discover how he totally distorts and twists statements.

I'll happy discuss both, because all it shows is that people that are trained to diagnose the mind can't even agree on whether it's an illness or not, yet you people have it all figured out!

Nothing to figure, unless you are trying to "figure" out a way to make an obvious disorder somehow "normal", but make sure other biologically similar disorders remain so. It just makes the APA look like hypocritical doofs.

So what scientific method have you used to determine that homosexuality is a disorder? I'm sorry, but the "it's obvious" line doesn't cut it. It was "obvious" to Hitler that the Jews were an inferior race. It was "obvious" to people not too long ago that blacks were less intelligent than whites.

I'd really expect more out of you than "it's obvious". We wouldn't be debating it if it was so obvious, would we? And the APA surely wouldn't be having to vote on something so "obvious".