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

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[Yes, started with Clinton -- though one thinks there'd have to be some sort of document describing it in a not-so-nice-way before that. And AFP says homosexuality-as-mental-disorder was freshly re-certified in 2003.] -B.

  
>From http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060620/pl_afp/usmilitarygays 

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    Researchers recently found the           Pentagon's directive 1332.38, on "physical disability evaluation," which includes homosexuality in a list of "mental disorders," along with mental retardation and personality disorders. 

The November 1996 document was re-certified as "current" in 2003, according to the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

 

 
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Doug Henwood wrote: 

   

  "If you note, Scully says the military's policy classifiying homosexuality as a mental illness was dated Nov. 14, 1996, barely a week after Bill Clinton was re-elected."