Breitbart- An Italian Public Prosecutor has exonerated Dr. Silvana De Mari of charges of defamation after the physician declared that homosexuality is a pathology.
The LGBT advocacy group Torino Pride brought the accusation of defamation against Dr. De Mari, alleging that she had effectively defamed the character of gays by declaring homosexuality to be an illness.
After months of deliberation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has ruled that the statements by the 64-year-old doctor and author did not constitute defamation because of the impossibility of identifying the individuals who would have possibly suffered injury from the claim.
In her defense, Dr. De Mari said that homosexuality is clearly not a normal condition, while also citing her own expertise in the matter.
“I have three specialties: psychotherapy, medicine and surgery,” De Mari said. “I have been taking care of homosexual persons for 40 years.”
While De Mari’s thesis on the abnormality of homosexuality has been a matter of public record, she gained further notoriety when interviewed on the Italian radio show La Zanzara, during which she declared that “gays live a tragic condition.”
Pro LGBT groups have denounced Dr. De Mari as “homophobic,” insisting that her statements provoke discrimination and “racial hatred.”
Sigmund Freud was famously ambivalent in his evaluation of homosexuality, at times denying it is a pathology and other times seeming to suggest otherwise.
In Freud’s “Letter to a Mother of a Homosexual,” the founder of psychoanalysis wrote to an American woman that homosexuality “is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation,” and that “it cannot be classified as an illness.” Freud then added that the homosexual condition “is produced by a certain arrest of sexual development.”
While strongly opposed to the social intolerance of homosexuals, Freud considered homosexuality to be a “perversion” in the psychoanalytic sense of the term, meaning a condition that includes self-object limitations, narcissism, and an underdeveloped superego.
“The common characteristic of all perversions,” Freud wrote, “is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim. We term sexual activity perverse when it has renounced the aim of reproduction and follows the pursuit of pleasure as an independent goal.”
Freud was convinced that homosexuality in males arose as a result of familial circumstances that failed to facilitate normal affective maturity, namely an overly attentive mother figure and a distant father figure, asserting that “all the investigations undertaken so far have yielded the same surprising result.”
Is common sense making a comeback in our world? One can only hope!
The Galileo of medicine
He should have clarified “mental disorder”.
Or as an “abnormality”. in the United States 6% of the population are supposed to be homosexual, that means 94 are not, so it is at least statistically abnormal.
There is the kernel of the matter.
There is no physiological difference in brains of Gay vs non Gay, so it is a mental issue, not a physiological one.
It is a reproductive inefficiency, historically homosexuals did not reproduce at the same rate as non homosexuals. So on a biological level it is a non-essential trait.
Certainly all the drama is non essential
I don’t care if you’re a homo, I don’t care if you’re a vegan.
I just want them to STFU about it.
What is it about “I don’t care” you don’t understand?
Psychiatrists used to cure homosexuality with therapy, so at the very least it was considered abnormal.
Do people even think anyone when they try to call people out with “racial hatred”? Critical thinking is dead in the perpetually offended.
Gay people are perfectly tolerable provided they don’t band together and act like world class cunts trying to ram their shitty lifestyles down everyone’s goddamn throat.
extremely offensive lifestyle lived by extremely offensive people.
do you wonder why their life expectancy is so short and end of life care is so costly ?
neither do i.
Finally some sanity. Viva Italia. Bravo Dottore De Mari.
She meant to say “causes” where she wrote “is”. An honest mistake.
LGBT homo activists have character to slander? Who knew?
More like LGBT homo activists ARE characters to slander. Much better.