"is homosexuality a mental illness"?

May not be a disease but a habit which is against nature should be avoided. 

Muralidharan I agree with your point of view. Assuming every person would be like this then our basic existence will be a question mark.

WHICH ARE THE OTHER ANIMALS TO HAVE THIS ABILITY to be hetrosexual or Homosexual other than Man...can u Pls Explain MEDICALLY mr.Chakrabarti???

Great to know...THOSE WHO ARE ALLREADY ABNORMAL...HOW WOULKD KNOW WHAT NORMAL Means N HOW CAN UNDERSTAND the FUNCTION of NORMALITY.....

U KNOW WHAT MAD MAN thinks the ENTIRE WORLD is MAD EXCEPT HIm...

what exactly u want to say sir.....MAN or WOman Becomes GAY cause of FATE??? is it???

You definately will think whenn somebody from ur family will unfortunately follow the path.....and of course it distarbs the social morals...its fatal illness...

What Exactly is the diffrence between HARMONAL Disorder....7 Mental Illness...I guess scientifically Mentall Disorder occures only due to Harmonal Disorder Only 

U MEAN FREEDOM of GOING Against THE NATURE...NATURALY +ve & +ve should Retract and so -VE -VE......The ATTRACTION should be between -VE & -VE Poles whish is the base of Existance of the World....u r against the law of nature...

WHAT DO U EXACTLY MEAN BY POLITICAL LANGUAGE...

I guess..ppl r clear  bt U R CONFUSED

U mean Ppl from MARS or JUPITAR or from Other SOLAR SYSTEM......HAVE u EVER SENN Other ANIMAL on EARTH DOING THIS????

Check the Statements from Mr. MATHEW CHERRIAN from MISCCHIGAN UNIVERSWITY...

i dont understand the scientific language u used but ya...i Support ur comment as it has got the seintific background..THANX...

See them with compassion ! Indeed, all diseased persons must be seen with compassion.  There should be a way to get them out of this disease.

But first of all, it must be accepted universally as a disease. Then only there is a meaning of "compassion".

Otherwise tomorrow there will be demand to accept even lower acts like bestiality as  "normal".

It may be genetic, but it is an abnormality nevertheless. Just because something is genetic, we cannot say it is normal and acceptable ! There are many diseases, some physical, some psychological , that have a genetic origin. Similarly, homosexuality is an abnormality for which treatment should be sought. Even cancer can be genetic, so that doesn't mean it is normal.

Many homosexuals became like that due to assault by existing homosexuals during their youth!  Again, several such victims have been cured of this defect.

The purpose of union of male and female of any species is replication.

How come, two males can replicate ? It is rubbish.

Nature has designed to body in a way that there is a passage to remove waste matter(Don't want to use terms here).

But that passage cannot be misused to obtain carnal pleasure. It is inhuman. Just as so many types of mental diseases were earlier regarded as 'normal', similarly today, homosexuality, which is just another mental disorder, is being regarded as normal.

God bless Ghulam Nabi Azad for his boldness!

Sorry Ms Bindu,

Homosexual is a social disease now, creep in world community. India, too would like to get in it. Disease I mentioned, not in terms of virus , but in terms of mental inclinations.

Society normally copies whatever is happening in other parts of the World. A few are hoping for the good of it & a few are not in favor of it. However, some, due to some instinct prevailing, you may call it freedom, like to follow the practice elsewhere followed . May be as a pioneer or just as shock-driven.

It is best to be judged  by the law (social, political).

If society approves homosexuality, it be prepared for these aberration from the normal sexual pattern. Probably, there is no dowry related problem, lesser population growth, no social binding between partners as we do now for the feminine. Let us say partners does not want to bear economical burden.

The so called Loneliness is overall responsible for this type of  activities. Germany is famous in the international level and in India it was Bhopal and it is Bangalore is leading.

Its really a mental illness, what kind of freedom is that, such freedom will only give rise to NEW STD's and may be HOMOSEXUAL RAPES in future. Such things shouldn't be supported, the kids can easily become victim of such mental illness that is another danger. Mother nature doesnt spare people who goes against it. People nowadays are ready to go to any extent just to satisfy their momentary sexual urge, such things will only lead to diseases which can be mental, physical or both.

Bindu I am afraid I dont agree with you since it is not natural. I feel this is a genetic disorder may be.

Assume the whole world is like this then we should not have existed.

can u be more specific??