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Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As Disorder
AP ^ | 6/19/6 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 06/19/2006 4:35:58 PM PDT by SmithL

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.

The Pentagon has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prohibits the military from inquiring about the sex lives of service members but requires discharges of those who openly acknowledge being gay.

The Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, uncovered the document and pointed to it as further proof that the military deserves failing grades for its treatment of gays.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disorders; dod; dontaskdonttell; gaysinmilitary; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; militaryreadiness; psychology; ucsb
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To: msjhall
It's a moral disorder.

Yes, it is. But one only has to watch MTV or BET music videos to see that heterosexuals in society have lost moral high ground when it comes to condemning homosexuality.

41 posted on 06/19/2006 5:55:30 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Canedawg
...they are suffering from a mental disorder...

Unless that mental disorder is stupidity, they have no excuse.

Who is Alex?
42 posted on 06/19/2006 6:00:24 PM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: SmithL
"I don't hate cops queers...I just feel better when they're not around."

FMCDH(BITS)

43 posted on 06/19/2006 6:04:08 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: SmithL
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.

Those mental health experts were on the APA. Unfortunately, their reasons for abandoning that position were due to gay activism, not science. While even some freepers refuse to believe it, gay scientist and activist Simon LeVay admitted exactly that:

"Gay activism was clearly the force that propelled the APA to declassify homosexuality."

Source: Simon LeVay, Queer Science, MIT Press, 1996, p. 224

I have LeVay's book and have verified the quote.

What does this mean? It means without gay activism, homosexuality would still be classified as a mential disorder. It's quite obvious there was no science involved in the declassification.

44 posted on 06/19/2006 6:10:06 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: scripter
It means without gay activism, homosexuality would still be classified as a mential disorder.

Argh. It would still be classified as a mental disorder. :-/

45 posted on 06/19/2006 6:12:49 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie

LOL


46 posted on 06/19/2006 6:17:10 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: SmithL

<< A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder .... >>

Rubbish.

"Homosexuality" is simply a (made-up) word.

The Derangement that leads (As often as not with the "assistance" of the derangement sufferers' habitual drunkedness and/or criminal drug use and/or epidemic Alcoholism) to the depraved behaviors, including serial sodomy, associated with what is usually referred to as "homosexuality," is a mental disorder.

Just as "kleptomania" is a mental disorder.

And "theft" is a crime.


47 posted on 06/19/2006 6:25:31 PM PDT by Brian Allen (All that is required to ensure the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke)
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To: SmithL
The Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, uncovered the document and pointed to it as further proof that the military deserves failing grades for its treatment of gays.

Ooooooooh my, swishers giving failing grades for not openly hugging swishers. Like that should carry any weight. How about The Center for the Study of Sexual Supermajorities in the Military giving passing with flying colors grades to the military for stopping the morale killing presence of fanny slappers in the barracks.

48 posted on 06/19/2006 6:28:36 PM PDT by Kudsman (America, America, God shed His grace on thee.)
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To: Kudsman

The Pentagon is, of course, right:


JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Archives of General Psychiatry
January 2001

"RESULTS. Psychiatric disorders were more prevalent among homosexually active people compared with heterosexually active people. Homosexual men had a higher 12-month prevalence of mood disorders and anxiety disorders than heterosexual men. Homosexual women had a higher 12-month prevalence of substance use disorders than heterosexual women. Lifetime prevalence rates reflect identical differences, except for mood disorders, which were more frequently observed in homosexual than in heterosexual women. The proportion of persons with 1 or more diagnoses differed only between homosexual and heterosexual women. More homosexual than heterosexual persons had 2 or more disorders during their lifetimes.

CONCLUSION. The findings support the assumption that people with same-sex sexual behavior are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders."

http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/58/1/85?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=disorder+psychiatric+same-sex+behavior&searchid=1065214876298_1176&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=archpsyc


49 posted on 06/19/2006 6:39:00 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: lionheart 247365

Unnatural, immoral and just plain disgusting.


50 posted on 06/19/2006 6:43:42 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: SmithL
Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As Disorder

What next? "Air is required in order to breath" or "Too much chocolate makes you fat"?

51 posted on 06/19/2006 6:46:37 PM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, son of Jor-el!)
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To: GreatOne

You are both fishophobic and chocolophobic and in need of sensitivity training...and perhaps some time in a reeducation camp if that doesn't work.


52 posted on 06/19/2006 6:50:42 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: TheBattman

If homosexuality were genetic, it would be vanishing over time. It is self destructive. Instead, if we believe the activists, it is constant or growing. This sounds like learned behavior to me.


53 posted on 06/19/2006 6:54:13 PM PDT by Ingtar (Prensa dos para el inglés)
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To: SmithL

I do not even consider it a mental disorder. I think it is a devient chosen lifestyle.


55 posted on 06/19/2006 10:07:01 PM PDT by therut
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To: SmithL

The shrinks never said it wasn't a disorder, just not a psychosis. They know that gays have all kinds of problems. The assumption--unproved--is that these are the result of prejudice.


56 posted on 06/19/2006 10:09:52 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Ingtar

"If homosexuality were genetic, it would be vanishing over time. It is self destructive. Instead, if we believe the activists, it is constant or growing. This sounds like learned behavior to me."

Same goes for masturbation. That shouldn't be tolerated and is the sign of moral weakness.


57 posted on 06/20/2006 12:22:04 AM PDT by Dave Elias
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To: Lucky Dog

"Who is Alex?"

The host of Jeopardy

:-)


58 posted on 06/20/2006 3:37:03 AM PDT by Canedawg (In God We Trust)
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To: SmithL
Nathaniel Frank, senior research fellow at the center, said, "The policy reflects the department's continued misunderstanding of homosexuality and makes it more difficult for gays and lesbians to access mental health services."

Well Nat, If it isn't a mental disorder why would they need mental health services?

59 posted on 06/20/2006 8:23:31 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TheBattman

"The Homo-lovers claim 10% across the board.

Yet I have heard figures closer to 1%. "

Makes you wonder why 99% of the entire population needs to be protected by a "marriage" amendment, since it's so small.


60 posted on 06/20/2006 8:26:55 AM PDT by linda_22003
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