http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/14/attack/main529418.shtml
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Nice turn of phrase. Thanks!onthebottom said:....I'm in the vast minority.
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I am with you on this one. The whole "don't ask,don't tell" policy was a stupid compromise to please some army homophobes.onthebottom said:Ah yes, the famous "don't ask, don't tell" policy - what moral pillar gave us that one?
I think all people who are uptight about gays are just simple minded - but that's just me, and I'm in the vast minority.
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Horse manure. How exactly exactly is one's sexual orientation going to come up during any questioning?bbking said:This has what to do about Gays in the US military being fired as translators for Arabs. The real issue here is that the US military is being a little hesitant to put a "Gay Man" in fron of an Arab Muslim so as not offend the Arab. This is crap on so many levels but most importantly why are we concerned about offendind the Arab morals, they hardly give a rat's ass about ours.
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Sounds to me like the Muslim attitude against homosexuality is pretty much dead in line with the American military's attitude.bbking said:Like I said - it wasn't right and most likely was an excuse but I will stand by the idea that decission makers pushed their bigotry back back onto Muslims who have very strong views on this subject.
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having been among the Arabs in the M.E., one of the things that struck me was their bigotry. As was explained to me by a Brit ex-pat resident, they have sort of a hierarchy of evolution, with Arabs on the top naturally. East Indians are on the lowest rung...not even qualified to be servants. Filipinos in the middle etc.bbking said:Like I said - it wasn't right and most likely was an excuse but I will stand by the idea that decission makers pushed their bigotry back back onto Muslims who have very strong views on this subject.
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It has nothing to do with it.bbking said:This has what to do about Gays in the US military being fired as translators for Arabs. The real issue here is that the US military is being a little hesitant to put a "Gay Man" in fron of an Arab Muslim so as not offend the Arab. This is crap on so many levels but most importantly why are we concerned about offendind the Arab morals, they hardly give a rat's ass about ours.
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I would make that at least 70% of Americans and about 40% of Canadians (not politicians)..and probably close to 50% of the heterosexual population worldwide...this is just a gutfeel guess.yychobbyist said:Sounds to me like the Muslim attitude against homosexuality is pretty much dead in line with the American military's attitude.
I don't know about that. I have this gut feeling that your average man in the military is perhaps not as liberal as those of us in the rest of society. I've met senior level people who that's certainly not true of but your average soldier is from a working class (or lower) family with a high school education and likely not as socially progressive as others when it comes to issues of gender.langeweile said:I would make that at least 70% of Americans and about 40% of Canadians (not politicians)..and probably close to 50% of the heterosexual population worldwide...this is just a gutfeel guess.
I agree with you on that. Like I said i was merely gueesing at the rest of the populationyychobbyist said:I don't know about that. I have this gut feeling that your average man in the military is perhaps not as liberal as those of us in the rest of society. I've met senior level people who that's certainly not true of but your average soldier is from a working class (or lower) family with a high school education and likely not as socially progressive as others when it comes to issues of gender.