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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: "No Wavering on Gay Soldiers"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.143722.5608@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1993Jan21.160714.12733@PacBell.COM> <=5j3jfh@rpi.edu> <1993Jan22.150448.4899@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 14:37:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.150448.4899@dvorak.amd.com>
- tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
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- >Well, according to my one on ones with the HR people at the
- >CIA and NSA they do not discriminate, but from experience in
- >such matters I know that what that means is that they value
- >the "opinion" of their security investigators and depending
- >on the "opinion" of said investigator concerning gays and
- >lesbians, one might be disqualified for a number of
- >different reasons (none of which would be homosexuality).
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- Not in any way to justify discrimination of various kinds
- that has surely been practiced in recruiting, there are
- indeed valid reasons for disqualifying people seeking
- employment in those agencies. Some people (among them some
- LGB people) would be really dangerous choices for some of
- those jobs. At the bottom line, the investigator's opinion,
- as long as it's not based on plain old bigotry, is all we
- have to go on.
-
- <> The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- <> -- Oscar Wilde
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