Posted on 01/28/2006 2:44:52 AM PST by JoAnka
January 6, 2006 - In early December 2005, Washington Post writer Shankar Vedantam reported on the efforts of UCLA psychology professor Edward Dunbar to encourage the psychiatric community to add "extreme bias" against homosexuals (or ethnic groups) added to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Professor Dunbar is considered an expert on hate crimes and serves as a consultant with the Los Angeles City Police Department, the LA Unified School District and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
The Post article quotes Darrel A. Regier, director of research at the APA who supports research into whether pathological bias is a disorder but wonders if adding it to the DSM would be useful. "If you're going to put racism into the next edition of DSM, you would have enormous criticism." Critics would ask, "'Are you pathologizing all of life? You better be prepared to defend that classification."
Sally Satel, author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine, calls Dunbar's proposal "absurd" and says such a diagnosis could be used by hate crime perpetrators to escape punishment.
However, Alvin F. Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School agrees with Dunbar and characterizes individuals with extreme bias as "delusional." He notes: "They imagine people are going to do all kinds of bad things and hurt them, and feel they have to do something to protect themselves. When they reach that stage, they are very impaired."
Shama Chaiken, with the California Department of Corrections also agrees with Dunbar. "We treat racism and homophobia as delusional disorders."
(Excerpt) Read more at narth.com ...
Hmmmm... I wonder if we can get liberalism added.
I wonder when I can start applying for my mental disability checks?
When do they start taking skull measurements like the National Socialists did to test the viability of someone's life?
Oh, wait, they already have... Morality on the Brain
So this psychologists wants to give the benefit of an insanity defense to someone who might hurt or murder a homosexual? I suppose in the event of that defense, the prosecution would argue the defendent had no idea the guy was a homosexual and thus the insanity defense is irrelevant.
Oh, wait, they already have... Morality on the Brain
That is why they call it 'common descent' we are all animals, and somebody has to protect the least likely to survive.
A page right out of the Soviet playbook.
What's worrisome is the thought that if they determine someone is mentally incompetent because of this new *mental disorder*, they can force *treatment* on a person. 1984 anyone?
I want to add the following behavioral disorders to the DSM :
1. Taking Psychology in College
2. Working for Family Services in any government agency.
3. Taking Journalism in College
4. Voting for John Kerry.
So now homophobia is a disease...just like alcoholism?
An alternative universe where crimes are NOT crimes -- they're diseases, but opinions and thoughts ARE crimes.
The Privilege of Speech in a
Pleasantly Authoritarian Country:
How Canadas Judiciary Allowed Laws
Proscribing Discourse Critical of
Homosexuality to Trump Free Speech
and Religious Liberty
http://www.narth.com/docs/PrivilegeofSpeechClausen090.pdf
I wonder if one could use it to get disability?
http://www.cwfa.org/printerfriendly.asp?id=2927&department=cfi&categoryid=papers
Look under the heading "Threats to Freedom", specifically points out the example of AT&T. At least before the merger with SBC, the diversity zampolit directorate office was a building on South Street in Morristown, NJ. Took up a good amount of office space, lots of overhead. Much of this was established while Robert Allen was CEO of AT&T, who had a backbone resembling overcooked spaghetti.
From the linked article:
When "sexual orientation" is added to a legal or corporate nondiscrimination code, it is a giant step toward the adoption of policies that discriminate against people with traditional views of morality.
In companies that have "sexual orientation" in nondiscrimination codes, employees face pro-homosexual diversity training, and even programs that openly assail traditional morality. As homosexual "diversity guru" Brian McNaught writes in his book Gay Issues in the Workplace, "There are people who believe that homosexual behavior is forbidden by the Bible. This too is a personal belief."24 McNaught, who frequently consults for AT&T and other Fortune 500 firms, counsels employers to dispense with any references to marriage: "[H]eterosexist language can also be changed. We can say, for instance, partner or significant other rather than spouse. We can say, Are you in a relationship? rather than, Are you married?"25 As for employees who decline to go along with the homosexual program, McNaught has this advice:
"If individuals insist that the companys efforts to create a safe work environment for gay employees discriminates against the religiously conservative employee and their values, I would ask them to 1) utilize the support services, such as counseling, made available to distressed employees; 2) speak to their supervisors so that they will be aware of their stress; and 3) do their best to stay focused on the purpose of their time at work. If the stress is so great that they are unable to function at work, I would reaffirm the companys policy on discrimination and tell them if they could not be comfortable with this policy I would understand why they would feel it necessary to seek employment elsewhere."
If I object to homosexuality on moral grounds I am phobic? A phobia is a fear...I don't fear homosexuality, I object to it.
1. Taking any Psychology above 101 in College
2. Working for Family Services in any government agency.
3. Taking Journalism in College
4. Voting for John Kerry.
Some of us college students have to take Psych 101 because that's the only thing open for humanities--it ain't really a choice. But yeah, taking anything else in Psych is really disturbing. :^)
It's a great start, though I'd also add one more: 5. Liberalism.
I meant as a major. Yah I had to take the psych course too.
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