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[Ben Kenobi]

HOW CAN ONE PERSON BE SO STUPID?

You're right, the article is cogent. Forgive me for assuming that you edit wikipedia and quote yourself, I should have known right off the bat.

[Asher]

You're right, the article is cogent. Forgive me for assuming that you edit wikipedia and quote yourself, I should have known right off the bat.

WHAT THE **** ARE YOU ****ING TALKING ABOUT?

Seriously. WHAT ARTICLE?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU???????

[Asher]

Like hell it's not. It's got direct bearing on the real world, unlike rah's fantasy example.

Two arguments, go ahead and choose.

1, homosexuality is like my disability, something I've had since birth and cannot do anything to change.

The problem is that your disability impairs your abilities as a soldier, being homosexual does not. You ****ing idiot.

[Ben Kenobi]

So you are saying it's not irrelevant at all.

Interesting argument. Isn't this discrimination?

[Asher]

So you are saying it's not irrelevant at all.

Interesting argument. Isn't this discrimination?

Yes, the same kind of discrimination that means someone without legs can't be an NHL player, and someone without arms can't be a massage therapist.

If you can't hear orders in a battlefield, you don't belong to be there. Yes, it's discrimination, but it's necessary.

[Ben Kenobi]

If you can't hear orders in a battlefield, you don't belong to be there. Yes, it's discrimination, but it's necessary.

So you'd agree with me that any soldier who can't abide the regs regarding fraternisation also should be drummed out and discriminated against?

[Asher]

What the **** are you talking about. I'm still waiting to figure out what article you are referencing.

It's like you're on another planet.

[Ben Kenobi]

Wikipedia, helping people win arguments since '45.

[Asher]

W T F

[MRT144]

Apparently that's Canadian Dry Humour

[Asher]

I think Ben is referencing my link to Stop-loss on wikipedia, quite a few posts before his...he seems to think it's a work of fiction, and stop-loss does not exist.

[MrFun]

None of that made sense.

Constitutional issue - Clinton said he had the authority as commander-in-chief to eliminate discrimination against gays. Homophobic Democrats and Republicans said no, and used another part of the U.S. Constitution to claim that the legislature had greater authority than Clinton in this regard.

[MrFun]

Personally? I'd be thrilled to gt an opportunity to serve, where all I had to do was shut up keep my head down and do my job. That's all I've ever asked for, but I don't get that choice.

GO BACK AND READ MY OP.

I talked about how the stress that goes with being forced in the closet for enlisted gays in the military compounds the stress that they, like straight people in the military already deal with.

GO BACK AND READ THE OP.

I can also add another source of stress that enlisted gays and lesbians face under DADT. Gays and lesbians in U.S. military cannot communicate with their spouses or partners who live back home, as openly and honestly as straight enlisted members can.

[Ben Kenobi]

I think Ben is referencing my link to Stop-loss on wikipedia,

[Asher]

It is not at all obvious. Your reply was posted 3 hours and 5 posts after mine, and you didn't quote a thing. Add in the fact that even if the particular post you were replying to was known, IT STILL MAKES NO SENSE.

Are you contending that the stop-loss program does not exist?