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Psychiatrists May Push for Gay Marriage OK

By John M. Grohol, PsyD
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Psychiatrists May Push for Gay Marriage OK

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.

I don’t get it. Why would a professional association be promoting a type of social committment such as marriage between a specific subset of the population?? It doesn’t have anything to do with promoting mental health. It’s a waste of time making announcements of this nature, because it’s not going to affect the people who most have a problem with it.


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    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 23 May 2005
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Grohol, J. (2005). Psychiatrists May Push for Gay Marriage OK. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2005/05/23/psychiatrists-may-push-for-gay-marriage-ok/

 

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