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June 20, 2006
Gay=insane
On the face of it, this is pretty bad.
A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.
I wonder:
If being gay is a dishonorable discharge, but being insane is a medical discharge (not dishonorable) then perhaps classifying being gay as being insane is actually meant to help the gays. They won't have a dishonorable discharge on their records, nor would they have to explain to each employer that they were discharged for being gay. This move by the pentagon may seem insane, but might actually be compassionate...
Of course, real compassion would be to have the laws changed to reflect the reality that gay people are just as fully human as straight people. But that’s not going to happen with this congress and administration...
Posted by Andrew at June 20, 2006 12:30 PM
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