20 June 2006

Gee, Officer Krupke...

I assume that most everyone has heard about this already...

  • Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As Disorder


  • 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.

    The Washington Post, June 20, 2006.

    ...decades after mental health experts abandoned that position is the key phrase. Rather than making progress, gays just keep going backwards. Instead of "Don't ask, don't tell" it's now

    Officer Krupke, you're really a square;
    This boy don't need a judge, he needs an analyst's care!
    It's just his neurosis that oughta be curbed.
    He's psychologic'ly disturbed!


    So what's a body to do?

    Officer Krupke

    Gee, Officer Krupke,
    We're down on our knees,
    'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.
    Gee, Officer Krupke,
    What are we to do?
    Gee, Officer Krupke,
    Krup you!


    Lyrics from West Side Story, Gee, Officer Krupke by Leonard Bernstein

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