This is just one of those stories that makes me shake my head in disbelief. The first paragraph says it all:
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.
Critics said the reference underscores the Pentagon’s failing policies on gays, and adds to a culture that has created uncertainty and insecurity around the treatment of homosexual service members, leading to anti-gay harassment.
Click here to read the entire DOD document – the reference to homosexuality as a mental disorder is on page 88, you’ll need to read page 87 too in order to understand the context.)