I didn't say that. You can define OCD however you want (disease, impairment, imperfection). I know people who are biologically overweight which acts as an impairment when running around a football pitch.
Which you could call a disease if you could show that they are not fat by choice.
I know people with a lower IQ than others which acts as an impairment in their dailly lives. The vast majority of humans have imperfections, what actually defines something as normal? How "stupid"do you have to be until you are classified as having "learning difficulties"?
Yes, let's talk Down Syndrome: people are born with it, it is genetic, and it is abnormal. Just like you say homosexuality is. Is Down Syndrome not an illness? Because if it is, you can't justify that homosexuality isn't based on these three fundamentals.
PAN, regardless of whether you define homosexuality as an illness, provide a good reason for the ostracization of homosexuals which goes beyond the already pedalled falsehood that acceptance of homosexuality is some form of indoctrination which can turn people gay!
This was never my argument, but since you asked, I consider there to be a difference between 'not endorsing the lifestyle of' and 'ostracizing'.
Let me give you an example here: you've probably read the Harry Potter series. So have I. Why have I read all of them? I was in the States, and I wanted to be able to criticize them in front of fangirls (philosophical value of the books, my Polish ass!). Regardless, you'll recall, probably, the time when the author, publicly, let loose the words "Dumbledore is gay".
Now, at this point, were I there, I, like a sane, rational person, would be disgusted at the implications. I'd made (to be rude)
jokes about his quite unusual relationship with and seemingly attatchment to what began as an 11-year-old boy, and still a minor throughout, but I'd always believed, in some corner of my mind, that the author would have the good sense not to publicly make them officially valid and effective.
But the crowd was of quite another sort of (hive mind) mentality, and their response...
Wild applause???You tell me how
that makes sense, and I'll start explaining to you how endorsement of things like 'Gay Pride' marches and the like can turn people gay.