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- From: phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone)
- Subject: Re: Gays, the military and "privacy"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.053709.18258@netcom.com>
- Organization: Generally in favor of, but mostly random.
- References: <1992Dec28.113059.1409@netcom.com> <13729@optilink.COM>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:37:09 GMT
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- In article <13729@optilink.COM> walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
- >From article <1992Dec28.113059.1409@netcom.com>, by phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone):
- >Phil makes an excellent point here. If there were no
- >discrimination against gays in the military, then the
- >potential for this sort of blackmail would go by the wayside.
- >Why is it that the chiefs continue to argue that gays should
- >be barred from military service because they are vulnerable
- >to blackmail when we all know that the reason for this is
- >because the fact that such activity is banned? -- Mark Walsh
-
- Well, since I don't think that the paperwork you fill out on joining the
- military has a sexual preference section, or, if homosexuals were
- accepted, that there wouyld be such a section, and since we are not about
- to have homosexuals wear pinkl triangles, we still have the problem that
- as most men would be uncomfortable with homosexuals, there would be strong
- pressure to not come out. And that makes a blackmail situation.
-
- Men, women, blacks do not have this problem because they effectively wear
- their "pink triangles" on their very persons. As an interesting side, I
- remember an early 1950's book I read (fact or fiction I don't remember)
- about a man who was very very light skinned black passing as white in
- OCS. Most of it was obvious and predictable, but the description of
- the tension and emotional problems was rather good.
-
-
- --
- I believe Gennifer Flowers.
-
- These opinions are MINE, and you can't have 'em! (But I'll rent 'em cheap ...)
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