The Talmud of the Jewish faith teaches that all people are not strictly male or female in all dimensions of being.
I. George W. Bush and Homosexuality.
President George W. Bush has said that he is a Christian and in his views on homosexuality he shows it well. Bush holds the bible the bible to be an authority and has let this background based in religion speak against homosexuality. Bush's stand on abortion can basically be summed up by him saying that he believes the FDA's approval of RU-486 was wrong and this belief adheres to the prohibition of homosexuality that Bush supports. .
II. Ulrichs & Freud on Homosexuality.
Sigmund Freud writes that, "It is a great injustice to prosecute homosexuality as a crime and a cruelty too." Freud's cohorts that preceded him such as Ulrichs believed that all men were born with normal sexuality. Ulrichs Invents Urnings was the author of Vindex a pamphlet seeking to defend "Urnings" or men who were homosexual by nature. "Urnings are attracted to other men because they are hermaphrodites of the mind. Even thought they have male bodies, their souls are female so they naturally are drawn to male sexual partners. Therefore laws like that impose criminal penalties on Urnings are unjust. .
III. Krafft-Ebing.
Krafft-Ebing, Vienna, 1886 was a German Professor of Psychiatry who published his work Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Forensic Study and claimed that homosexuality can be caused by either masturbation or debauchery, however the most common cause or origin of the disease is degenerate heredity. Although his work has been used by judges and police to justify punishment against homosexuals in reality he stood against punishing homosexuals for their disease. Krafft-Ebing wrote that judges needed to discern between those who were perverse and those who were perverts in their sentencing of these individuals.
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