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SammyBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 05:59 PM
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Homophobia At The Pentagon: WTF IS THIS SHIT!!!!!

Pentagon lists homosexuality as disorder


By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 20, 6:23 AM ET

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.

Critics said the reference underscores the Pentagon's failing policies on gays, and adds to a culture that has created uncertainty and insecurity around the treatment of homosexual service members, leading to anti-gay harassment.

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

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_gays


WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?! BEING GAY IS A DISORDER??? What is being a narrow minded, state sponsored bigot then? All-American and Apple Pie??? FUCK YOU, your fucking sheet wearing mouth breathers!!!
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varkam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:00 PM
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1. Already posted...
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 07:10 PM
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11. Call and bitch!!!
http://www.dtic.mil/ref/html/OrgChart.htm

I am calling the deputy director tomorrow!!! If being gay is a mental illness, then so should religious fundamentalism...
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gator_in_Ontario Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:02 PM
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2. You know we are nuts
what a great excuse!
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:03 PM
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3. GANNON's clientele were military wingnuts n/t
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:17 PM
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4. please consider this ...
people usually throw stones and run away from that which they most fear (but has not yet come to thier light) that is in them.

those pentaganian homophobes have somewhere in their deepest soul of souls fallen in love with someone of their same sex, they must, therefore, blame the other, stone homosexuality to death, and condemn it as an illness, even if they have to go over and against the diagnostic manual of mental disorders, and over and above the words of the recent episcopalian bishop who believes some people were created, by God, to love people of the same gender.

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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:29 PM
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7. damn it! not all people who hate gay people are closeted gays.
most in fact are not -- they just hate gay folk period.
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gator_in_Ontario Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:35 PM
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10. YES *s*
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 10:39 PM
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13. have you asked yourself why they hate gay people?
fear. fear of being gay themselves.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 11:29 PM
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15. I don't think that is true at all
I think it has WAY more to do with MISOGYNY than fear of being gay.
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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:30 PM
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8. Bingo.. This is What I Think As Well
they seem to obsess a bit too much with other's sexuality. Maybe it's theirs they are really trying to re-affirm.
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 10:41 PM
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14. you got their number!!!!!
:patriot:
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Biernuts Donating Member (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:25 PM
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5. I found it! Never mind, it's from the last 3 months of Clinton's 1st term
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/text/i133238p.txt

Guess we know where the Clintons stand on it now and another reason Hillary ain't all that popular with this crowd.

It's DoD Instruction 1332.38, dated November 14, 1996
SUBJECT: Physical Disability Evaluation


Quoted below:

E5. ENCLOSURE 5

CONDITIONS NOT CONSTITUTING A PHYSICAL DISABILITY

E5.1.1. PURPOSE. To detail conditions which do not
constitute a physical disability.

E5.1.2. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

E5.1.2.1. Certain conditions and defects of a developmental
nature designated by the Secretary of Defense do not
constitute a physical disability and are not ratable
in the absence of an underlying ratable causative disorder.
If there is a causative disorder it will be rated
in accordance with other provisions of this Instruction.

E5.1.2.2. These conditions include but are not limited
to those listed in paragraph E5.1.3., below.

E5.1.2.3. Such conditions should be referred for appropriate
administrative action under other laws and regulations.


E5.1.3. DEVELOPMENT DEFECTS AND OTHER SPECIFIC CONDITIONS

E5.1.3.1. Enuresis

E5.1.3.2. Sleepwalking and/or Somnambulism

E5.1.2.3. Dyslexia and Other Learning Disorders

E5.1.2.4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

E5.1.2.5. Stammering or Stuttering

E5.1.2.6. Incapacitating fear of flying confirmed by
a psychiatric evaluation.

E5.1.2.7. Airsickness, Motion, and/or Travel Sickness.

E5.1.2.8. Phobic fear of Air, Sea and Submarine Modes
of Transportation

E5.1.2.9. Certain Mental Disorders including:

E5.1.2.9.1. Uncomplicated Alcoholism or other Substance
Use Disorder

E5.1.2.9.2. Personality Disorders

E5.1.2.9.3. Mental Retardation

E5.1.2.9.4. Adjustment Disorders

E5.1.2.9.5. Impulse Control Disorders

E5.1.2.9.6. Homosexuality

E5.1.2.9.7. Sexual Gender and Identity Disorders, including
Sexual Dysfunctions and Paraphilias

E5.1.2.9.8. Factitious Disorder

E5.1.2.10. Obesity.

E5.1.2.11. Overheight.

E5.1.2.12. Psuedofolliculitis barbae of the face and/or
neck.

E5.1.2.13. Medical Contraindication to the Administration
of Required Immunizations.

E5.1.2.14. Significant allergic reaction to stinging
insect venom.

E5.1.2.15. Unsanitary habits including repeated venereal
disease infections.

E5.1.2.16. Certain Anemias (in the absence of unfitting
sequelae) including G6PD Deficiency, other inherited
Anemia Trait, and Von Willebrand’s Disease.

E5.1.2.17. Allergy to Uniformed Clothing.:(
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:28 PM
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6. they'd be surprised if they knew how many gay folk work in the pentagon.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 06:31 PM
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9. Apply for disability immediately!
Ask for a VA pension
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Biernuts Donating Member (446 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 08:35 PM
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12. You need to re-read it - it says that it's NOT a disability
It's in enclosure 5 to the 1996 DoD instruction.

The specific wording is

"Certain conditions and defects of a developmental
nature designated by the Secretary of Defense do not
constitute a physical disability and are not ratable
in the absence of an underlying ratable causative disorder.
If there is a causative disorder it will be rated
in accordance with other provisions of this Instruction."

That means that you cannot get a disability rating from either homosexuality or from being too tall.
Para E5.1.2.11. "Overheight" in the pentagon bureaucratic mumbo jumbo.

Damn you Karl Rove! Why do you hate overly tall people and how how did you sneak into the Pentagon to write this DoD Instruction on Clinton's watch!
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-21-06 06:14 AM
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16. They are so good at covering their sorry asses
I wish they demonstrated that degree of competence at the rest of their work.
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