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- From: onr@netcom.com (D. Owen Rowley)
- Subject: Re: Lifting the Ban
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.235235.5482@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan26.171813.23658@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:52:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.171813.23658@news.columbia.edu> jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman) writes:
- >I watched a bit of Nightline last night. I was quite impressed by Lt. Tracy
- >Thorne. The other idiot kept claiming that gays are congenitally promiscuous
- >and unstable. Of course, he never bothered to think of the effect on
- >relationship duration and personal stability that being unable to acknowledge
- >one's SO as such must have. How long would the generals' marriages have
- >lasted if they had not only not been allowed to legally marry, but weren't
- >even allowed to admit that they loved their spouse? If evidence of having had
- >sex (say, children or the word of a prostitute they visited while off-duty) was
- >sufficient to get them discharged?
-
- At first when I heard that nightline was going to do their focus on the ban,
- I was pissed.
- Other news organisations had been playing it down, and I thought, *great..
- whip it up on Nightline*
-
- I was pleased however that the first part of the show was abalanced and fair
- apraisal of the issue,
- and that the banter between Cokie roberts, Lt Thorne and LtCol(ret) Wm
- Gregor made the military position look exactly like the senseless
- homophobic banter that it is.
-
- I think that when the dust settles Tracy thorne should re-enter
- civilian life and get involved in queer politics.
- This man is articulate, calm under pressure, bright, cute as a bug :-)
-
-
- LUX ./. owen
-
-
- >
- >I've already called Mr. Powell's office today (reminding his lackey that blacks
- >were accused of being promiscuous and over-sexed before Truman integrated the
- >armed forces), so I can't really call again to ask this question. Anyone have
- >the phone/fax/email numbers for major news agencies that might be asking
- >questions of the military brass in the next two days?
- >
- >Important phone numbers:
- >White House (202)456-1111
- >Gen. Powell's office (703)697-9121
- >Senate switchboard (202)224-3121
- >
- >-jenneke
- >
- > Only Boys Accepting Feminism Get Kissed Meaningfully -- Geoff Marcy
- >The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. - Alfred Kinsey
- > jenneke is: jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
-
-
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- D. Owen Rowley onr@netcom.com ( also owen@autodesk.com )
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