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- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss,ca.politics,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: Gays in the military (was:Re: Book Review "The Homosexalities")
- Message-ID: <44049@zygot.ati.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:09:43 GMT
- References: <randall.727666344@seashore> <PC.93Jan25145316@bacon.linus.mitre.org> <randall.728017145@seashore>
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- In article <randall.728017145@seashore> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) writes:
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- >I find it interesting that Colin Powell is apparently against
- >allowing homosexuals into the military. That's interesting.
- >If one Harry S. Truman didn't have the guts to integrate the
- >military, General Powell wouldn't be in the position to have
- >such an opinion.
-
- Powell is very careful to differentiate between racial integration and
- allowing openly homosexual people to serve. He refers to racial
- differences as "benign" as opposed to homosexuals who "define
- themselves by their behavior". And I am sure that he really believes
- this rot, else how could he live with this position?
-
- The vast majority of homosexual people who have been separated from the
- military because of orientation have been done so not because of
- behavior, but because of admitting to a "propensity to prohibited
- behavior". But this has as much validity as accepting Arthur Hu's
- assertion that blacks have a propensity toward crime and then barring
- them from service.
-
- >The U.S. Armed Forces is perhaps the most
- >racially integrated institution in the world, but only because
- >Harry S. ignored the same arguments that are being used against
- >gays today.
-
- A spokesman for the military's position last night on ABC's Nightline
- ran these circular arguments around the track a few more times. He
- brought up AIDS and statistical indications that homosexuals as a group
- are unstable. All in all, it is completely reminiscent of the old
- garbage used against the concept of racial integration.
-
- It will be interesting to see what the Supreme Court says, since that
- is where I believe it will finally end up.
-
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