TVC Takes A Hard Look At APA’s Endorsement Of Homosexual Marriage

August 6, 2004 – Traditional Values Coalition Chairman Rev. Louis P. Sheldon published a commentary on August 3, exposing the dangerous homosexual agenda being pursued by the American Psychological Association.Last week, the APA endorsed homosexual marriage, homosexual adoption, and foster parenting as a "civil rights" issue. The APA had accepted the endorsement of its Working Group On Same-Sex Family and Relationships, which includes a deaf lesbian, Dr. Candace McCullough.

While claiming in their report to the APA that homosexual families are no different than heterosexual families—and that children in homosexual families are just as normal as those in heterosexual families—McCullough’s own lesbian "family" is a picture of dysfunction.

In 2002, McCullough and her sex partner Sharon Duchesneau, who is also deaf, were profiled in the Washington Post. They decided to have children together so drafted a deaf male for his sperm so Duchesneau could be artificially inseminated. The goal was to create a deaf child. This homosexual couple eventually had two children, Jehanne and Gauvin. Jehanne is totally deaf and Gauvin has severe hearing loss in one ear and is deaf in the other ear.

The Post article notes that these homosexual women believe that being deaf is not a handicap but a cultural identity like race or ethnicity. Rev. Sheldon’s editorial published in 2002 describes this tragedy.

The deliberate creation of deaf children by these women was defended or glossed over in homosexual publications like The Advocate and The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, which published an article by John Corvino, a teacher of ethics at Wayne State University on November 1, 2002. In his essay, "Why Baby Gauvin is not a victim," criticizes Rev. Sheldon for protesting the creation of deaf children and claims that charges of child abuse rests "on a fundamental metaphysical confusion."

Corvino continues: "Even if one grants that deafness is a disability, it does not follow that those who aim to produce a deaf child thereby harm the child. In order to demonstrate that Sharon and Candy have harmed Gauvin, one would have to show that there was something they could have done differently to prevent his disability."

Abolish The APA’s Division 44
The American Psychological Association’s Division 44, the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues, is a hotbed of homosexual/transgender radicalism within the APA and exerts enormous influence over the organization. It should be abolished because its materials are not science-based but are frequently based on radical sexual liberationist philosophies and the sexual practices in stone-age cultures.

The Division 44 newsletter reveals the bizarre agenda of the homosexuals, transgendered psychologists, bisexuals, etc., who work on this committee and push for the "deconstruction" of gender and the normalization of every sexual practice. The Summer, 2004, issue, for example is devoted to "transgender psychology" and features an essay by Randall D. Ehrbar, entitled, "Cross-Cultural Examples of Gender Variance." Ehrbar is the head of the APA’s Division 44 Committee on Gender Identity Issues.

Ehrbar surveys a number of primitive tribes who have cross-dressers or abnormal sexual development in their cultures and concludes that these societies are more accepting of gender differences than our own culture. He notes, for example, that the "acault" in Myanmar (Burma) are cross-dressing males. The primitive Buddhist/animistic culture worships spirits known as "nats." One of these spirits is Manguedon, a female spirit who is said to impart feminine characteristics to these acault males.

The influence of Division 44 extends into the top leadership of the APA. The President Elect of the APA is Dr. Ronald Levant, who is listed as a member of Division 44. He works in the Center for Psychological Studies at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
TVC’s Homosexual Urban Legend report, "Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal," shows how the psychology and psychiatry were taken over by homosexual activists. The decision to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was a political decision, not one based on science.

TAKE ACTION: Contact the current head of the APA, Dr. Diane Halpern, and ask her if she thinks it’s unethical for Dr. McCullough to have been involved in the deliberate creation of two deaf children and if she thinks this McCullough’s family structure is what the APA would consider a normal and emotionally healthy family. Ask why the APA’s Division 44 exists and why the APA is allowing this division to promote psychological theories based upon the beliefs of animistic Buddhist tribes who worship non-existent female spirits.
Dr. Halpern’s contact information is available here: Council of Representatives Directory. APA’s contact information is available here: APA Online.

Write a letter to the editor of your local paper about the APA’s endorsement of homosexual marriage and use Rev. Sheldon’s editorial as a resource for your letter as well as this article.

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