Something from my mail that I want to pass on.
From: stuartjohn@xxxxx.xxx (stuart/john)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:33:00 +0000
To: stuartjohn@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: APA needs our support after voting to support marriage equality
After their recent brave action to support the rights of same-sex couples, the American Psychiatric Association is being flooding with angry emails from right wingers.
Their Board of Trustees still has to approve the statement passed by the APA Assembly. We expect this will happen, but we need to let the APA know that their position has support.
Please email the APA at apa@psych.org and tell them that you appreciate the APA's support of legal civil marriage rights for same sex couples. And tell your friends to do so, too.
If anyone has psychiatrist friends (especially those who are APA members), *please* have them identify themselves as psychiatrists and APA members in their emails. (APA members should contact APA through the psych.org member's center.)
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Psychiatric Association calls for gay marriage
recognition
May 22, 2005
The Associated Press - ATLANTA
Representatives of the nation's top psychiatric group
weighed in on gay marriage Sunday, approving a
statement urging legal recognition of same-sex unions.
The statement, if approved by the association's
directors in July, would make the American Psychiatric
Association the first major medical group to take such
a stance.
The statement, approved on a voice vote, supports
same-sex marriage and benefits "in the interest of
maintaining and promoting mental health."
The psychiatrists approved the statement Sunday, the
first day of the APA's weeklong annual meeting in
Atlanta.
The vote goes beyond the association's 2000 statement
supporting same-sex civil unions and continues a
history of recognizing "that gay men and lesbians are
full human beings who should be afforded the same
human and civil rights," said Margery Sved, a Raleigh,
N.C., psychiatrist and member of the assembly's
committee on gay and lesbian issues.
The position paper cites the "positive influence of a
stable, adult partnership on the health of all family
members." It says the lack of access to health
insurance, pension payments, death benefits and other
rights for same-sex couples hurts the stability of
their relationships and their mental health.
The document clarifies that the association is
addressing same-sex civil marriage, not religious
marriages. It takes no position on any religion's
views on marriage.
A clear majority of the assembly's roughly 250 members
present Sunday approved the measure.
Joseph Berger, a psychiatrist from Toronto, Canada,
voted against it for what he called political reasons.
He cited gay marriage votes in several states last
year where voters overwhelmingly sided against the
institution.
"It's very unusual for an organization like ours to
take on an issue so contrary to where public sentiment
is," he said. "It's a little bit like poking your
finger in the eye of the public when so much of the
public seems to be against it."
Forty states bar same-sex marriages, including some
that prohibit same-sex couples from enjoying many of
the legal protections that heterosexual couples enjoy.
Last year, Georgians voted 3-to-1 for a constitutional
amendment defining marriage as between a man and a
woman. Some psychiatrists pushed a boycott of this
week's conference because of the vote, but most APA
members opted to attend, officials said.
Other mental health groups have adopted similar
positions on gay marriage in the past year. In July,
the American Psychological Association adopted a
position statement that said research showed that
discrimination based on sexual orientation
"detrimentally affects the psychological, physical,
social and economic well-being of lesbian, gay and
bisexual individuals."
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:33:00 +0000
To: stuartjohn@xxxxx.xxx
Subject: APA needs our support after voting to support marriage equality
After their recent brave action to support the rights of same-sex couples, the American Psychiatric Association is being flooding with angry emails from right wingers.
Their Board of Trustees still has to approve the statement passed by the APA Assembly. We expect this will happen, but we need to let the APA know that their position has support.
Please email the APA at apa@psych.org and tell them that you appreciate the APA's support of legal civil marriage rights for same sex couples. And tell your friends to do so, too.
If anyone has psychiatrist friends (especially those who are APA members), *please* have them identify themselves as psychiatrists and APA members in their emails. (APA members should contact APA through the psych.org member's center.)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Psychiatric Association calls for gay marriage
recognition
May 22, 2005
The Associated Press - ATLANTA
Representatives of the nation's top psychiatric group
weighed in on gay marriage Sunday, approving a
statement urging legal recognition of same-sex unions.
The statement, if approved by the association's
directors in July, would make the American Psychiatric
Association the first major medical group to take such
a stance.
The statement, approved on a voice vote, supports
same-sex marriage and benefits "in the interest of
maintaining and promoting mental health."
The psychiatrists approved the statement Sunday, the
first day of the APA's weeklong annual meeting in
Atlanta.
The vote goes beyond the association's 2000 statement
supporting same-sex civil unions and continues a
history of recognizing "that gay men and lesbians are
full human beings who should be afforded the same
human and civil rights," said Margery Sved, a Raleigh,
N.C., psychiatrist and member of the assembly's
committee on gay and lesbian issues.
The position paper cites the "positive influence of a
stable, adult partnership on the health of all family
members." It says the lack of access to health
insurance, pension payments, death benefits and other
rights for same-sex couples hurts the stability of
their relationships and their mental health.
The document clarifies that the association is
addressing same-sex civil marriage, not religious
marriages. It takes no position on any religion's
views on marriage.
A clear majority of the assembly's roughly 250 members
present Sunday approved the measure.
Joseph Berger, a psychiatrist from Toronto, Canada,
voted against it for what he called political reasons.
He cited gay marriage votes in several states last
year where voters overwhelmingly sided against the
institution.
"It's very unusual for an organization like ours to
take on an issue so contrary to where public sentiment
is," he said. "It's a little bit like poking your
finger in the eye of the public when so much of the
public seems to be against it."
Forty states bar same-sex marriages, including some
that prohibit same-sex couples from enjoying many of
the legal protections that heterosexual couples enjoy.
Last year, Georgians voted 3-to-1 for a constitutional
amendment defining marriage as between a man and a
woman. Some psychiatrists pushed a boycott of this
week's conference because of the vote, but most APA
members opted to attend, officials said.
Other mental health groups have adopted similar
positions on gay marriage in the past year. In July,
the American Psychological Association adopted a
position statement that said research showed that
discrimination based on sexual orientation
"detrimentally affects the psychological, physical,
social and economic well-being of lesbian, gay and
bisexual individuals."
posted by JulieDee at 5/24/2005 08:27:00 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds good! I once sent an email to a number of GLBT newspapers and the GLBT Community at University of Pennsylvania about an article I saw earlier this year about a priest refusing burial and last rites to a gay member of the community, both local and that particular church and eventually, due to pressure from national areas, the priest issued an apology and allwoed burial and last rites.
It's amazing the bigotry that still exists in this country. Over on DailyKos, we call it The American Taliban. Feel free to refer to relgious bigots in this manner.
If I may also direct you to another story, Baptist church sign: "Koran needs to be flushed".
He has since issued an apology, barely. But it's still just another sign of what the religious reich is really capable of, which is, in a nutshell, hypocrisy.
Actually "Phase 2"of this was just put into action and can be found at the top of the blog! Out here we refer to them as the "Cristabalan" Or Christian Taliban... after all they are beginning to spring up in China, India, and recently in Pakistan! In fact some of the most FIERCELY FANATIC of them are from the Indian sub continent! YUPPERS! The WORST are from the land of Buddha and Gandhi!
Dobson and Kennedy (of the 700Club fame) have always been two of the top ones on my watch list. Mostly because they have such a large national following, and also because these two tend to espouse the most outrageous points of view... at least until someone calls them on it then they INVARIABLY whine that they were "taken out of context" or that they "misspoke"... yea... right. Like just the other day Dobson put his foot in his mouth when he inferred that the Supreme Court was like the KKK after the Civil War in the way they have been ruling lately. When called on it he said (I paraphrase of course) 'Oh my no! I would NEVER say such a thing! What I MEANT to say was that the Supreme court at the time off Dread Scott was like that!' sure Jimmy... sure... an easy slip of the tongue... ANYONE could have ended up being misunderstood like that... nudge-nudge-wink-wink... sure!
When he was sponsoring the anti gay amendments here in California, he was claiming that his legislation would protect BOTH gay AND straight families... by rolling back every single protection gay families have received here since 1978? Maybe it just me but, HOW does that help gay families? Huh?
This guy makes Bush look truthful! And Kennedy? ¡Aye Carumba! ¡Equila Chinga vato! That... that... that... man is the perfect partner to Dobson!
When my wife and I and LJ Carusone and Michael Thurber started Marriage Equality California withthe help of Connie Riese from Marriage Equality NY some 7 years ago we knew we werein for a longg fight. What we never counted on was all the out of state agitators like Dobson... ESPECIALLY Dobson... and their out of state money messing in OUR California business!
Dobson has had his hands in ALL of the MOST repressive of the anti-gay legislation in the USA today and makes NO illusions about it being part and parcel of his plan for the great American Theocracy. He advocates out right child abuse ad "discipline", and his 'biblical law' meets the 14 defining characteristics of a nazi regime for Christ's sake... literally!
Rather thn read me rant here you can read me rant in the blog LOL!
JUlie
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