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- From: fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands)
- Subject: Re: Showering in the Military (Re: Gays in the Military..what nobody is talking about: )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.032916.8142@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 03:29:16 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1hdjfpINNcps@hp-col.col.hp.com> <1hdkcqINNq40@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Dec25.175244.2266@anasazi.com>
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- In article <1992Dec25.175244.2266@anasazi.com> john@anasazi.com writes:
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- | And also another example of why the conditioning that the military would
- | require in order to accept gays would not work. THese sailors were
- | obviously conditioned against murder (life in Leavenworth Stockade breaking
- | breaks is not to be taken lightly), and yet they still committed. To me,
- | this simply highlights the aversion that some young men in the military
- | have to gays (no surprise to me), and how hard it would be to change
- | that aversion, and how poorly units would function in the interim.
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- This perfectly parallels commentary against the removal of racial separation
- in the military, and yet Harry Truman went ahead, and, somehow, the
- military muddled through being dragged into the 20th century.
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- Fritz
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