The U.S. military still thinks gays are crazy

The Associated Press reported today that a Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position. While the rest of us have moved on to debates about gay marriage, the Defense Department still thinks we're sick in the head.

Next, they'll discover a document that reveals that the Pentagon believes that masturbation causes blindness, that Milli Vanilli sang their own songs, and that drinking Pepsi after eating Pop Rocks will make your stomach explode.

I was never in the military, but after talking to a few people who have served and after watching the HBO special, Baghdad E.R., it's beyond me how this old chestnut (as Dick Cheney called the military ban in 1991) survives. When you see doctors, nurses, and orderlies working in the green zone hospital, you can see that it's a job, albeit a very dangerous and stressful one. It's a workplace, and I can't understand why anyone would care if there was an out gay man or lesbian working there.