Psychiatrists May Push for Gay marriage OK

[Dr Ron]

From Light Up the Darkness. Limited to 4 paragraphs here per DU rules, more at LUTD

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=937

Psychiatrists May Push for Gay marriage OK
By DOUG GROSS
Associated Press Writer

May 22, 2005, 5:57 PM EDT

ATLANTA -- Representatives of the nation's top psychiatric group approved a statement Sunday urging legal recognition of gay marriage. If approved by the association's directors in July, the measure would make the American Psychiatric Association the first major medical group to take such a stance.

The statement supports same-sex marriage "in the interest of maintaining and promoting mental health."

It follows a similar measure by the American Psychological Association last year, little more than three decades after that group removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.

The psychiatric association's statement, approved by voice vote on the first day of its weeklong annual meeting in Atlanta, cites the "positive influence of a stable, adult partnership on the health of all family members."

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. That's nice. Talk about belaboring the obvious. Now if only....

we can get them to show some real backbone and address the phenomena of homophobia as an explicit mental health issue with profound consequences for gays and non gays alike.

[NMMNG]

2. Indeed

That would be quite an undertaking though

[beam me up scotty]

3. One step at a time

I guess.