License to care
An interesting short news item in the paper:
A religious group that runs two facilities that counsel gays to give up homosexuality has sued the state in federal court, claiming Tennessee is violating the group's religious freedom by requiring a license to care for the mentally ill.
Is it just me, or is it odd that this is not a huge controversy? Here you have a government agency implying that homosexuality is a mental illness! Psychiatrists have long ago given up that assertion that homosexuality is a mental illness, so why is this state agency claiming it is so?
I of course don't know what the group (Love in Action) does, but I suspect it involves a lot of prayer and discussion. It's probably apparent that it's not caring for the mentally ill.
posted by Greg @ 9:30 PM
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I suppose one could argue that any gay that thinks they want to be straight is a priori mentally ill....
Funny, DJ!
I didn't read the article (I don't think you linked to it), but my read of it is somewhat different from yours. I read it that this is a ministry that tries to "cure" homosexuality, and in addition to that they wanted a license to administer care to the mentally ill. Probably noting the quackery involved in their enterprise, the Tennessee authorizing agency denied them a license, precipitating the lawsuit. So I don't think that a government agency is saying that homosexuality is a mental illness so much as this scenario (I could be wrong, not having seen any of the papers, but that's my surmise).
Sorry, I didn't notice I forgot a title for this post, so the link to the article wasn't there.
I don't know the full details of this story, since it is in one of those boxes with short story blurbs.
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