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Pentagon Still Classifies Homosexuality as a Disorder

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Posted on Jun 20, 2006
Pentagon document listing homosexuality as a disorder
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This snippet of an official Pentagon document lists homosexuality as a mental disorder.

A Pentagon document still lists homosexuality as a mental defect akin to retardation and impulse control disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned the position.

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    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.

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    By Robert, June 20, 2006 at 4:16 pm Link to this comment
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    And we mustn’t forget to put militarism on our list of mental disorders.  It should be listed under varieties of machismo madness.

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    By alex 2012, June 20, 2006 at 10:57 am Link to this comment
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    No worries. All this will change once ‘Stormin’ Norman, Tommy Franks, and John Murtha come out.

    God bless ‘em.

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    By Fart Marple, June 20, 2006 at 10:36 am Link to this comment
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    Hey wait a minute. I don’t get it. I’m retarded, and I was in the Army.

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    By R. A. Earl, June 20, 2006 at 10:01 am Link to this comment
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    Obviously, the “retardation” exists in the minds of the administrators, not the service members.

    I wonder how many decades/centuries must pass before it finally sinks into society’s smaller minds that HUMAN DIVERSITY is the NORM.

    To rephrase… IT IS COMPLETELY NORMAL for any given human individual to be one of, or a combination of, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual. Sure, MORE humans are mainly heterosexual but that does NOT mean all the others are ABNORMAL. It simply means there are fewer non-heterosexuals than heterosexuals. SO… WHAT IN HELL IS THE BIG DEAL?

    NO ONE… not a hetero or homo or bi or asexual CHOOSES his/her sexual orientation… we all become what we become and there’s not a damned thing anyone can, OR SHOULD, do about it.

    Anyone of any rank, religion or race who tries to tell you differently, is, at best, ignorant and misinformed, and at worst, an offensive, bigoted MORON.

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    By locke, June 20, 2006 at 9:51 am Link to this comment
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    Uh, huh…in that case, why don’t we class “greed” and “corruption” as impulse-control disorders, since they are rampant amongst our representatives. . .

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    By C Quil, June 20, 2006 at 9:06 am Link to this comment
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    The Pentagon is right on top of the latest intelligence, as usual.

    Is the Soviet Union still considered a threat to peace and security?

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