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12-03-2007, 05:07 PM
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| Here's some of the debate that created DADT in the first place. Senate Debate re: Homosexuals in the Military  | |||||||||||||||||||||
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12-03-2007, 05:52 PM
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A number of trial balloons have been issued (that should be enough to get fx excited!_ "Most submarines do not have enough bunks, enough bunk space for each sailor and so they `hot bunk.' That is, three men usually share the same bunk on a rotating 8-hour-a-day basis. On one submarine we were on, some of the torpedoes were removed, thanks to the demise of the cold war, and some of that space was used for sleeping area. That space underneath the submarine racks was about 18 inches high and only about 18 inches wide, as wide as a bunk. There were six of them laid together. Sailors had to crawl over each other to enter their bunk and to leave their bunk. They were then required to share a shower, 63 to share 2 showers.Sexual privacy is virtually nonexistent. If you are living in that situation and working in that situation, and you are confident that you are not the object of someone's sexual desire, it is not a problem. If you conclude or think that you might be, it is a very severe problem." Retired Gen. Norm Schwarzkopf has said: Homosexuality is against many religions, the act of sodomy, against the principles of many religions. * * * I think that culturally there are many people in the country who are very much against homosexuals, and if the Army openly allowed homosexuals in their ranks, that would damage our public interests. Gen. Colin Powell told midshipmen at the Naval Academy: If it strikes at the heart of your moral beliefs, then you have to resign. Fleet Master Chief Carter commented: Take it as an insult whenever race and homosexuality are hooked together. You change the way you treated minorities, and blacks especially, because it was the moral and correct thing to do. That is why it happened, for no other reason--my dues have been paid, I am 50 years old. I demonstrated, I drank hot water, I sat on the back of the bus, I paid my dues. And I do not want [homosexuals] riding on the back of minorities. I take insult to that. Seems pretty conclusive to me but no doubt I will be labelled a "bigot" or a "homophobe" for agreeing with these distinguished military experts.  | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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