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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: <1992Dec30.192144.7033@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:21:44 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec29.004539.5683@anasazi.com> <1992Dec29.034601.28832@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Dec30.042419.2105@anasazi.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.042419.2105@anasazi.com> john@anasazi.com writes:
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- | ]Since there is no RIGHT to participate in the military, why was it important
- | ]to integrate blacks into the military in the 50s and not important to
- | ]integrate gays into the military in the 90s ?
- |
- | Because blacks constitute a significant segment of the population;
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- Could you quantify "significant"?
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- | because blackness is not a behavioral trait.
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- So, it would be proper to not integrate members of non-Christian religious
- groups into the military?
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- | And how many times must it be said that having open gays in the military
- | leads to a number of problems that having closet gays does not.
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- Actually, I see a lot more problems that get reduced. The potential for
- blaickmail, for example.
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- | ]And if you have every been in a public shower, odds are that you have taken
- | ]a shower with a homosexual. Would it have really made any difference if
- | ]you knew that that other person was a homosexual ?
- |
- | I believe that for many service people the answer to that is yes.
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- Could you possibly elaborate on this? I have, literally, no idea what
- your problem is.
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- Fritz
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