AMA Joins Efforts to Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and Voices Concerns Over Same-Sex Marriage Bans

HRC Human Rights Campaign ^ | 11/10/2009 | HRC

[redreno]

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, issued the following statement today on the American Medical Association’s (AMA) announcements regarding LGBT rights. AMA members voted to join the effort to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and declared that bans on same-sex marriage result in health disparities for LGBT couples and families.

[Signalman]

When did the AMA turn into a communist organization?

[kittymyrib]

With the poor judgment calls the AMA has made lately, I think I’ll ask any doctor I see if he belongs to that group, and I’ll see whether he tells me.

[Adder]

[coughBullsh#tcough]

[ohiogrammy]

Most of my neighbors are doctors and have nothing but disdain for this organization.
Can someone explain Don’t Ask - Don’t Tell for me? I have never really understood this but thought it was to make the gay/lesbian community happy.

[ScottinVA]

They need to stick to diagnosing ailments, prescribing medicine and golfing; and stay the HELL out of issues such as whether homos can get married.

[Vaquero]

in other news...the Atomic Energy Commission Joins Efforts to prevent the proliferation of the H1N1 vaccine as such a vaccine could not possibly be used to produce clean energy....

Obtuse sarc off....

[MBB1984]

It appears that the AMA has political opinions on the price of tea in China.

[almcbean]

Fill in the blank - American _______ Association, and you will find a liberal political organization, rather than a professional organization. Examples, besides Medical, are Bar, Library, Psychological. I’m sure there are others.

[afnamvet]

The AMA can KMA.

[Auntie Dem]

Next the AMA will be saying there is absolutely no link between homosexuality and AIDS, or STD’s, and that if society lets gays marry these diseases will only be limited to the hetero community.

The AMA must be giving itself a colonoscopy with their head.

[a fool in paradise]

A real human rights campaign would seek to protect the rights of the individual including children who survive abortion and are born alive only to be left dying for hours under their own lungpower in a closet somewhere in a hospital.

[Kozak]

This is why 3 out of 4 doctors do not belong. As conservative docs like myself quit, the AMA moved ever farther to the left. Most of the docs left are academics, administrators and government employees.

[a fool in paradise]

Does Bawney Fwank listen to these quacks?

[a fool in paradise]

Most of the docs left are academics, administrators and government employees.

Don't forget to include the homosexual members who seek to change public policy through "new" positions.

[a fool in paradise]

Can someone explain Don’t Ask - Don’t Tell for me? I have never really understood this but thought it was to make the gay/lesbian community happy.

It was a shield policy to keep them from being discharged strictly for being homosexual. "We won't investigate, and you won't declare it..." This same Sgt. Schulz position led us to accepting and promoting jihadists within the ranks.

[nagdt]

I think all gays in the military should ID themselves as such. So should Islamic Jihadists. Heck, they should all bunk together. What a happy bunch they’d be!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Ya, what do laws regarding gays in the military or defining marriage have to do with the practice of medicine???????

I was surprised to see the AMA weigh in on these issues. But since they did weigh in, I see it was on the liberal side.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Just wondering, what is the AMAs opinion on “Gay Bowel Syndrone”? Anybody know?

[JPG]

Talk about sticking your nose in where it doesn’t belong. The AMA is bucking the NEA for the most socialist, useless organization...AARP close behind.