Posted on 05/22/2005 3:13:49 PM PDT by dvan
ATLANTA - Representatives of the nation's top psychiatric group approved a statement Sunday urging legal recognition of gay marriage. If approved by the association's directors in July, the measure would make the American Psychiatric Association the first major medical group to take such a stance.
The statement supports same-sex marriage "in the interest of maintaining and promoting mental health."
It follows a similar measure by the American Psychological Association last year, little more than three decades after that group removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
The psychiatric association's statement, approved by voice vote on the first day of its weeklong annual meeting in Atlanta, cites the "positive influence of a stable, adult partnership on the health of all family members."
The resolution recognizes "that gay men and lesbians are full human beings who should be afforded the same human and civil rights," said Margery Sved, a Raleigh, N.C., psychiatrist and member of the assembly's committee on gay and lesbian issues.
The document clarifies that the association is addressing same-sex civil marriage, not religious marriages. It takes no position on any religion's views on marriage.
Massachusetts is the only state that allows same-sex marriage. Eighteen states have passed constitutional amendments outlawing same-sex marriage.
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After all, it would make them feel better.
A few years ago, homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. The scientific evidence to change this is non-existant. What happened? Political correctness and junk science got to them. Excuse me but these shrinks are crazy.
What does psychiatry have to do with endorsement of purported human and civil rights?
They're nuts anyway.
They have no credibility in my book.
I don't care what they advocate.
Do they really think a group of socialist shrinks pushing for Homosexual Marraige will change our minds?
I'm a psychiatrist. I quit the American Psychiatric Association in 1994 because they repeatedly tooK leftist stances on most issues, without asK ing for in put from members or allowing alternative voices a stance.
No leftist organization is ever reformed from within.
Good Riddance.
Allan Levy, M.D.
FredericK, Md.
The Psychiatrists have caught an infection of Newspeak from their patients. Possible preventative therapy.. Call it garriage!
how can it promote any kind of health when homos hardly live to be in their 50s?the whole lifestyle is deadly, physically and spiritually.
Most psychiatrists go into this field because they are such a mental mess and they think they will find some help for themselves. I could not agree with you more.
Seeing as how the APA is infiltrated with Homosexuals, Pedophiles and their sympathizers I wouldn't believe anything they supported.
I'm not sure we needed more proof that psychiatrists enter the profession because they're mentally ill.
Well actually that's not what happened at all, but if you prefer to opine rather than to do the homework to find out what really happened, who am I to interfere.
Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
. . . and lest anyone ever have any doubt as to what sanity is, it is what the APA says it is this year. Subject to change without notice. No deposit, no return. Warning! Mental health may be dangerous to your mental health. Use at your own risk. Undertaker's Lab approved.
I want pshchiaratrists to explain why 10 years ago they said it was a mental disorder. What else that their past leaders taught should now be considered utter nonsense?
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