Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As Disorder

AP ^ | 6/19/6 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

[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.

[msjhall]

It's a moral disorder.

[A Troop 1-14 Cav]

(A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.)



Oh dear God the ACLU, Human Rights leftists, the DNC and other assorted riff raff are going to lose what is left of their alleged minds.

[BenLurkin]

It's both.

[wyattearp]

further proof that the military deserves failing grades for its treatment of gays.

They need to quit whining. Queers used to have to be "transferred" off the ship on a stokes.

[pfflier]

A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder

That will leave 'em kicking and crying and in total denial. By tomorrow this will be the banner headline across the MSM.

[fwdude]

The military is one of the last bastions of a robust society that was once the rule instead of the exception. Now, if they could only stand up to feminism.

[shrinkermd]

It is by no means universally accepted that homosexuality is "normal." Indeed, the determination to stop diagnosing such disorders was not done by the members of the American Psychiatric Association but rather by a small group of the Board.

Biologically homosexuality cannot be defined as "normal" if the ultimate goal of sexuality is procreation. Statistically, homosexuality is comparatively rare--at any given time 4% of men and 2% of women.

[Future Snake Eater]

...decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.

"Of course, I will not go into details of why those 'experts' abandoned their positions, because that would open your eyes to the truth, and God knows we can't have that, assuming He or She exists (and probably doesn't)."

[VOA]

The United States Military...
the only thing that makes me smile when I pay my taxes on April 15.

[reaganandme]

By tomorrow this will be the banner headline across the MSM.

Who cares. The more liberal the MSM becomes, the more credibility they lose.

[umgud]

It's a sexual perversion and those who practice it are sexual deviants. The only reason it's tolerated is that it is practiced between consenting adults (yeah right).

[familyop]

That might be why the movie, "Jarhead," was recently made. It's a disgusting homo-activist, anti-defense movie, and I don't recommend it.

[familyop]

"The military is one of the last bastions of a robust society that was once the rule instead of the exception. Now, if they could only stand up to feminism."

Yes. The big, multi-branch Private Lynch production was expensive in more ways than one.

[Uncle Meat]

Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As Disorder

In reality it is.In liberal lala land it's something to wear like a badge of honor and needs to be pushed on grade schoolers.

[robowombat]

Why are the press so incapable of just stating clearly what they are writing about in defense matters. This is not a classified or secret document it is a DODI and Department of Defense Instruction. These are defined as:

A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) INSTRUCTION is a DoD issuance that implements the policy, or prescribes the manner or a specific plan or action for carrying out the policy, operating a program or activity, and assigning responsibilities.

and most can be found at:

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/general.html

The press is forever making the most mundane aspects of the armed forces seem to be some sort of covert and sinister activity.

[CindyDawg]

He lives:')

[pfflier]

Well according to the gay interest groups via the MSM, the military is performing poorly in Iraq because they have a gay exclusionary policy. If our forces were more diversified we would be winning in stellular fashion.

Hell, one of 'em could even become queen of Iraq, if those big meanies in the pentagon were more correct thinkers.

[Tamar1973]

A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.

The reason the psychiatric community declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder was due to politics, rather than based on logic and science.

[KoRn]

This should be fun. They are going to go nuts, more so than now, as soon as this gets to be known.