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- From: jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Military Madness (was: Gay Sailor Reinstated)
- Message-ID: <2b0a6962@ThreeL.co.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:03:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.133815.8302@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>,
- gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes:
-
- > The Supreme Court recently upheld the conviction of an airman at Altus
- > Air Force Base in Oklahoma. The charge was oral sex with his
- > girlfriend, in a private home off base. The punishment was seven
- > months in jail, a reduction in rank, and a bad-conduct discharge.
-
- That can't be right, Gene. I mean, I've just been reading
- Mr Solovay explaining how the US is still a free country.
- You expect me to believe that there's constitutional
- protection for everyone to troll around carrying automatic
- weapons in the name of freedom but people aren't allowed to
- have oral sex? That the highest court in the land is going
- to sit down and with full constitutional majesty send you
- to *jail* for *sucking* *cock*? C'mon.
-
- It's reassuring, in a way, to realise that the UK isn't the
- only completely loony country in the world.
-
- --John
-