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Quote by: Morgan_Freeman For instance, if someone in the military is openly gay, how do you billet them? Do you still put them in a room with another man? With a woman? In a room by themself? |
Interesting, isn't it... this is the exact same arguement being made when it was proposed to integrate 'negroes' into the ranks back in 1947. How do you billet them? You gonna
bunk "niggers" next to the white boys? You gotta be kidding~ Share foxholes? Share
showers with negroes? By gawd, it'll destroy unit cohesion... whites won't put up with it, guy's gotta depend on his buddy, etc., etc., etc.
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Quote by: Morgan_Freeman Men and women in the military often take showers in open shower rooms, like in pool locker rooms. |
Has it ever occurred to you that gays have been showering with other men (or other women) all through junior high school, high school, college and in various public and private gyms, all without anyone ever knowing and without getting raging erections at the mere sight of wet, naked men. They're quite used to it, Morgan.
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Quote by: Morgan_Freeman If someone is openly gay, would that make other men uncomfortable? |
When I was a boy, about 10 or so back in 1959, I took a trip with my grandparents and we made a stop at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. I met another kid my age and naturally we struck up an acquaintance... briefly. Turns out he was from the South and right away he began regaling me with the travails of his older brother who was serving in the U.S. Navy... and had to bunk next to some "damn nigger!!" This was the same older brother who liked to go down to "Coontown" and shoot "nigger's dawgs"
Now of course you're saying, this is different, or that was years ago, attitudes have changed. Yes, they changed because we made them change. Same with gays... they have the exact same rights to participate in their own society and to serve their own country as anyone else. Gays aren't the problem, it's the folks that are afraid of them that are the problem. Get over it!
Once heteros start serving with gays, they'll discover exactly what I discovered long ago... that gays are really no different than anyone else, except for that one little thing, make fine friends and are no threat to anyone.
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