[lbo-talk] AP: Pentagon classifies homosexuality as mental disorder

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 20 00:03:22 PDT 2006


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060619/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_gays

Pentagon lists homosexuality as disorder

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

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.

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"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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