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- From: briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass)
- Subject: Re: Showering in the Military (Re: Gays in the Military..what nobody is talking about: )
- Organization: Anasazi Inc Phx Az USA
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:23:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.002350.21895@anasazi.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.212551.14782@unet.net.com> stank@perrault.unet.com (Stan Knight) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec23.183439.17001@anasazi.com> briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass) writes:
- >>>BTW, in some services, hetro soldiers can still be prosecuted for consential
- >>>sodomy or oral copulation with a women while on base. Should Clinton repeal
- >>>this ban also, while he repeals it for homosexuals?
- >
- >
- >Where do you get this stuff from Brian?
-
- U.S. News & World Report.
-
- >For your information ALL branches of
- >the service have sexual conduct rules for ALL service members which are
- >enforceable on or off base.
-
- Thank you very much. Since I did not have the article in hand, I felt
- obligated NOT to overstate a claim and apply this ALL services, hence my
- caveat of "in some services." And though I believe the subject of the
- article was in the Navy and prosecuted for consential sodomy, I could not
- remember precisely and so again did not overstate the claim.
-
- >Sodomy is one such offense. Further, Clinton has
- >never said that he would lift such sexual conduct rules for gays. What he has
- >said, many times, is that there will be changes in these rules. What he wants
- >to do is to make them much STRICTER for EVERYONE. If Tailhook is any example I
- >would say it's long over due.
-
- To paraphase what many have proclaimed here: "the military no business in the
- private lives (i.e. sexual) of its personnel, and so whether someone is gay or
- not should be irrelevant." Not my words, not my thoughts. But looking at
- things from their side for a moment, I must ask, if such assertion is true,
- mustn't the military do away with all of its rules regarding consential sex?
- And obviously I'm not talking about criminal acts.
-
- You seem to indicate Clinton will make such consential rules stricter.
- Well, since sodomy and oral copulation would still be banned, wouldn't this
- be discriminatory towards the gay members? After all, there's not much
- left, except maybe hand-jobs. 8-). That may offend some, which is not my
- intent (maybe a little levity). However, if it is repealed for gays, must not
- it also be repealed for hetrosexuals?
-
- Just some points of ponder.
-
- >
- >Stan Knight
- >|Facts is facts unless you make up your own|
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