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"stoney" |
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21 Jun 2006 07:16:50 AM |
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Pentagon memo: Homosexuality a disorder |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13431328/
Pentagon memo: Homosexuality a disorder
Document outlines discharge policies; department says it's under review
Updated: 4:58 a.m. ET June 20, 2006
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.
Critics slam document
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.
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.”
The document, called a Defense Department Instruction, was condemned by
medical professionals, members of Congress and other experts, including
the American Psychiatric Association.
“It is disappointing that certain Department of Defense instructions
include homosexuality as a ’mental disorder’ more than 30 years after
the mental health community recognized that such a classification was a
mistake,” said Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass.
Congress members noted that other Pentagon regulations dealing with
mental health do not include homosexuality on any lists of psychological
disorders. And in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on
Monday, nine lawmakers asked for a full review of all documents and
policies to ensure they reflect that same standard.
“Based on scientific and medical evidence the APA declassified
homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973 — a position shared by all
other major health and mental health organizations based on their own
review of the science,” James H. Scully Jr., head of the psychiatric
association, said in a letter to the Defense Department’s top doctor
earlier this month.
There were 726 military members discharged under the “don’t ask, don’t
tell” policy during the budget year that ended last Sept. 30. That
marked the first year since 2001 that the total had increased. The
number of discharges had declined each year since it peaked at 1,227 in
2001, and had fallen to 653 in 2004.
© 2006 The Associated Press
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| User: "Ronald More-More Moshki" |
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| Title: Re: Pentagon memo: Homosexuality a disorder |
21 Jun 2006 10:45:36 AM |
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stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13431328/
"Based on scientific and medical evidence the APA declassified
homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973 - a position shared by all
other major health and mental health organizations based on their own
review of the science," James H. Scully Jr., head of the psychiatric
association, said in a letter to the Defense Department's top doctor
earlier this month.
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maybe Tom Cruise is right about the wothlessness
of psychiatry.
Science and Religion------------both are junk.
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| User: "thomas p" |
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| Title: Re: Pentagon memo: Homosexuality a disorder |
22 Jun 2006 10:07:11 AM |
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On 21 Jun 2006 08:45:36 -0700, "Ronald 'More-More' Moshki"
<sector_four@yahoo.com> wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13431328/
"Based on scientific and medical evidence the APA declassified
homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973 - a position shared by all
other major health and mental health organizations based on their own
review of the science," James H. Scully Jr., head of the psychiatric
association, said in a letter to the Defense Department's top doctor
earlier this month.
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maybe Tom Cruise is right about the wothlessness
of psychiatry.
Science and Religion------------both are junk.
And Jesus wept!
Thomas P.
"Life must be lived forwards but understood backwards"
(Kierkegaard)
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| User: "Josh Miles" |
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| Title: Re: Pentagon memo: Homosexuality a disorder |
21 Jun 2006 01:00:19 PM |
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Ronald 'More-More' Moshki wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13431328/
"Based on scientific and medical evidence the APA declassified
homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973 - a position shared by all
other major health and mental health organizations based on their own
review of the science," James H. Scully Jr., head of the psychiatric
association, said in a letter to the Defense Department's top doctor
earlier this month.
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maybe Tom Cruise is right about the wothlessness
of psychiatry.
Science and Religion------------both are junk.
This has nothing to do with psychiatry and everything to do with politics.
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| User: "Ronald More-More Moshki" |
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| Title: Re: Pentagon memo: Homosexuality a disorder |
22 Jun 2006 01:45:35 AM |
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Josh Miles wrote:
Ronald 'More-More' Moshki wrote:
stoney wrote:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13431328/
"Based on scientific and medical evidence the APA declassified
homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973 - a position shared by all
other major health and mental health organizations based on their own
review of the science," James H. Scully Jr., head of the psychiatric
association, said in a letter to the Defense Department's top doctor
earlier this month.
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maybe Tom Cruise is right about the wothlessness
of psychiatry.
Science and Religion------------both are junk. per Ronnie
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This has nothing to do with psychiatry and everything to do with politics. stoney says
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it is Scientology trying to establish inroads in politics by blasting
psychiatry
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