Calif. Psychologist Wants 'Extreme Bias' Against Homosexuals Added To DSM ('Homophobia' a disorder?)

NARTH ^ | January 6, 2006 | NARTH

[Brilliant]

Hmmmm... I wonder if we can get liberalism added.

[caffe]

I wonder when I can start applying for my mental disability checks?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

When do they start building the gulags?

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

[caffe]

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.

[JoAnka]

"I wonder when I can start applying for my mental disability checks?"

Yeah, that would be cool. But how about this scenario?

"Soviet dissident is arrested. His crime: distributing anti-government literature. A psychiatrist testifies that the dissident is ‘unfit to plead’ due to mental illness. The result: the dissident is put away without trial in a maximum security mental hospital for an indefinite period."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566731/posts#11

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

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

[Just mythoughts]

That is why they call it 'common descent' we are all animals, and somebody has to protect the least likely to survive.

[Thorin]

A page right out of the Soviet playbook.

[metmom]

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?

[festus]

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.

[ElkGroveDan]

It's only a matter of time before mistrust of government is added to the list.

[DCPatriot]

So now homophobia is a disease...just like alcoholism?

[F16Fighter]

What don't we just let the APA replace the judiciary?

An alternative universe where crimes are NOT crimes -- they're diseases, but opinions and thoughts ARE crimes.

[simicyber]

The “Privilege of Speech” in a
“Pleasantly Authoritarian Country”:
How Canada’s Judiciary Allowed Laws
Proscribing Discourse Critical of
Homosexuality to Trump Free Speech
and Religious Liberty†

http://www.narth.com/docs/PrivilegeofSpeechClausen090.pdf

[Delphinium]

I wonder if one could use it to get disability?

[Fred Hayek]

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.

[Fred Hayek]

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 company’s 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 company’s 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."

[LiteKeeper]

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.

[rzeznikj at stout]

I want to add the following behavioral disorders to the DSM :

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.

[festus]

I meant as a major. Yah I had to take the psych course too.