Do you know someone with the gay disease?

Heh.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.

What really gets me is this:

The Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, uncovered the document and pointed to it as further proof that the military deserves failing grades for its treatment of gays.

Are you kidding? We have a public university with public tax dollars going to a Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military? Even for California, that's a...okay, maybe it's not such a stretch for California.

While we're at it though, why don't we start a Center for the Study of Left Handed Arachnophobic Bank Tellers?

I definitely think this next guy is really wrong though.

Nathaniel Frank, senior research fellow at the center, said, "The policy reflects the department's continued misunderstanding of homosexuality and makes it more difficult for gays and lesbians to access mental health services."

Shouldn't this actually make it easier for gays and lesbians to access mental health services? I mean, hey, they're classified as having a mental disease already, so that should automatically put them in the front lines for mental health services!

Okay, that wasn't funny. My apologies.

But I think the Department of Agriculture is still considering left handed arachnophobic bank tellers to be officially insane. I'm going to go back to working on my application for a grant to start that Center for the Study of Left Handed Arachnophobic Bank Tellers.