Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As Disorder (not a joke!)

I couldn't make this up:

WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.

The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section on defects lists homosexuality alongside mental retardation and personality disorders.

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Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jeremy M. Martin said the policy document is under review.

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The document, called a Defense Department Instruction, was condemned by medical professionals, members of Congress and other experts, including the American Psychiatric Association.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901026.html

...a bunch of little children who like to play soldier with real lives telling me I have a mental disorder because of who I love.

Since when was love a disorder?

The official bigotry of the United States military is very well documented.

Everything is moving backwards in America.

...after all 'mental retardation' is listed as a disorder but the Pentagon clearly lets any idiot work for them.

Pentagon clearly lets any idiot work for them.

...the idiot running the country too!

Guess the Pentagon must be full of idiots who like to surround themselves with idiots?

Guess the Pentagon must be full of idiots who like to surround themselves with idiots?

I suppose anything else would risk an inferiority complex.

licensed to practice medicine? I always thought psychiatric diagnoses were the province of medical professionals. If my assumption is correct, can the Pentagon be prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license?
Just wondering. :think:

I mean, Bill Frist can make a medical diagnosis by watching a videotape, so I really don't see the problem.

:sarcasm:

This is going to sound cruel (and off-topic), but I have this bumper sticker design all uploaded and ready to sell, when the time is right (remember, you saw it here first!):



I'm going to hell for this, I know.

On the basis of their "disability?" If I'm a 40-something gay Pentagon employee I've gotta be looking at this policy document and seeing if there isn't some way I can take advantage.

They are practicing psychiatry without a license for all intents and purposes. Their declaration is utterly invalid.

Give that FundieSlayer a cigar!

We need to stop trying to fight them with the law- it's not on our side anyway- and start fighing them with the loopholes they leave behind.

Gay Pentagon employees should try thins. The policy would vanish overnight.

dupe

By the pentagon's own definition, certainly none of these deranged individuals pictured above would be allowed to serve in the military either.

Not that they would, since they're all cowards...

Chicken hawk, murderous, lying, ugly, immoral, calculating racists.

But that's okay, huh?

I'm sure every damn psychiatrist on the planet would beg to differ.

Have a terrific day, pentagon :)

and an immoral one!

So if you've been serving at the pentagon for a couple of decades and they discover that you're retarded, you can kiss your pension goodbye.

What a bunch of idiots, no mental retardation required.

It's a wonder they don't have irrational bigotry down there as a "flaw" too.

peace, big is little, lies are truths etc. etc. etc.

The fact that they regard homosexuality as a mental disorder is a *good* thing, seems to me.

I'd be a little nervous if they regarded me as suitable cannon fodder.

This is something that these people up on their high horses just don't understand- if homosexuality is a "choice", then why aren't they speaking out against these other mental disorders? Oh, sure. That old man chose to become schizophrenic and hear voices in his head. And that lady over there, why, she just woke up one day and said "I'm going to have OCD!"

The only thing that they have in common is the simple fact that people don't choose to get ailments, any more than who they choose to love. I personally happen to be attracted to the opposite gender, but unlike these sick bigots, I understand that people don't choose who they fall in love with.

And really, if these people are so secure about their sexuality, and "marriage between men and women" thing, then why should it bother them? Unless, perhaps, they're hiding their true feelings and attacking people in order to feel "better" about themselves. Disgusting!