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Inhofe: Soldiers Won't Fight for Gay Comrades

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lostlakehiker5/13/2010 2:24:26 pm PDT

Inhofe has no clue. The ONLY objection that holds any water at all is that sexual bonds can come into conflict with unit cohesion. This is a possibility both across gender lines and within them. Since the military has managed fairly well to cope with the hazard when men and women serve together, it ought to be able to cope fairly well with the same hazard when men and men serve together.

The acid test would be to see how things went if we had men and women share shower and toilet facilities, but maybe we don’t need to push our luck before giving the proposed new policy a try.