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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Any word on military ban yet?
- Message-ID: <137@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 02:14:54 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.174317.12244@PacBell.COM> <1k3hlsINNt28@elang06.acslab.umbc.edu> <1993Jan26.162056.23544@PacBell.COM>
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- In article <1993Jan26.162056.23544@PacBell.COM> rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
- >
- >New York Times columnist (and former executive editor) Abe
- >Rosenthal takes Gen. Colin Powell to task for his opposition
- >to lifting the ban, advising Powell that his career and
- >position in Army was made possible only by Harry Truman's
- >executive order integrating the military in 1948 in the face
- >of similar opposition and bigotry. His piece closes...
- >
- > So I have an answer for a question General Powell raised
- > last month at Amercian University -- what can he tell a
- > heterosexual youngster who comes in and says that in his
- > private accommodations he prefers to have heterosexuals
- > around him, not gays?
-
- What would he say to a young recruit who didn't want to get up at the
- crack of dawn but wanted to sleep in until 10 AM? Since when is
- the purpose of the military to pander to the whims of the soldiers?
-
- --
- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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