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Snuckles
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posted 19 June 2006 08:03 PM      Profile for Snuckles   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
The Associated Press
Monday, June 19, 2006; 10:39 PM

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.


Read it here.


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SunTzu
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posted 19 June 2006 08:10 PM      Profile for SunTzu   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Snuckles:

Read it here.


They certainly do not do much to try and dispel the idiocy in some thinking down there. Frankly, gays and lesbians are just as capable of picking up a rifle, or filling any other military job as straights.


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Ken Burch
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posted 19 June 2006 08:17 PM      Profile for Ken Burch     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, when it comes to the workings of disordered minds, who knows better than the Pentagon, an organization that has to cope with the workings of the minds of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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Michelle
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posted 19 June 2006 08:24 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow. Maybe they should get the Pentagon to write the DSM!

Maybe next they could share their opinion on chickenhawkitis, something that many of their supporters, including the commander in chief, are afflicted with.


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siren
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posted 19 June 2006 08:37 PM      Profile for siren     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Ah, the Pentagon, fount of wisdom and war. Remember when they did this:

quote:
By DEROY MURDOCK
Scripps Howard News Service
13-JAN-05

NEW YORK -- Name the greater risk to national security: patriotic military translators who happen to be homosexual or anti-American Islamofascist terrorists who happen to be homicidal. If you picked the latter, thanks for putting U.S. safety first. Alas, the Pentagon disagrees.

According to new Defense Department data, between fiscal years 1998 and 2003, 20 Arabic- and six Farsi-language experts were booted from the military under President Bill Clinton's 1993 "don't ask/don't tell" policy. These GIs trained at the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. Had they graduated _ assuming 40-hour workweeks and two-week vacations _ they could have dedicated 52,000 man-hours annually to interrogate Arab-speaking bomb builders, interpret intercepted enemy communications or transmit reassuring words to bewildered Baghdad residents.

Preparation for these vital activities ends when a dedicated warrior is found to be gay. Under "don't ask," if that GI's homosexuality becomes evident, he must stop conjugating verbs and head home.

.................................

This problem extends beyond those who can communicate with combative Iraqis, duplicitous Saudis or atom-splitting Iranians. Including Finkenbinder, at least 74 language specialists have been jettisoned from the military between fiscal 1998 and 2003. At least 37 were dismissed after 9/11, reports Nathaniel Frank, an adjunct history professor at New York University. Frank is also a senior research fellow at the University of California-Santa Barbara's Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military. His findings appear in the Jan. 24 New Republic.

Those whose homosexuality impressed the Pentagon more than their rare verbal talents include 18 Korean speakers (visualize Kim Jong Il), 11 Russophones, eight Spanish specialists, three Mandarin Chinese experts, three Serbo-Croatian speakers (Kosovo, anyone?) and one each steeped in German, Hebrew, Italian and Vietnamese.


No more conjugating for you, homo sapiens.


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otter
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posted 20 June 2006 09:27 AM      Profile for otter        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
FLASH - homosexuals [and every thinking human being on the planet] list the pentagon as a house of mental disorders!
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paxamillion
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posted 20 June 2006 11:38 AM      Profile for paxamillion   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by otter:
FLASH - homosexuals [and every thinking human being on the planet] list the pentagon as a house of mental disorders!

And the AMA sides with the homosexuals!


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Left Turn
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posted 20 June 2006 11:10 PM      Profile for Left Turn     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What is the pentagon doing proslietizing on the nature of homosexulity in the first place? They should leave it to the medical profession, who have thankfully been on the right side of this issue since 1970.
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