Pentagon Revisiting Homosexuality
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So, some at the Pentagon at some point thought you had to be crazy to be a man who like other men in the biblical sense.
Makes us wonder what their real issue might be.
On second thought...More...
By PAULINE JELINEK
Jun 28, 2006, 21:08
The Pentagon is revising a document that calls homosexuality a mental disorder, officials said Wednesday.
Lawmakers, medical professionals and others had pressed for the change in a document outlining procedures for dealing with disabled service members.
"Homosexuality should not have been characterized as a mental disorder in an appendix of a procedural instruction," Lt. Col. Jeremy Martin, a Defense Department spokesman, said Wednesday. "A clarification will be issued over the next few days."
"Notwithstanding its inclusion, we find no practical impact since that appendix simply listed factors that do not constitute a physical disability, and homosexuality of course does not," he said in a statement.
So, some at the Pentagon at some point thought you had to be crazy to be a man who like other men in the biblical sense.
Makes us wonder what their real issue might be.