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Originally Posted by jowey
The speech should not have been interrupted once they allowed it.
I personally do not agree with homosexuality coming out of the closet for the military. This is based upon personal experience.
We were a small group in a compound in a foreign country. We were assigned apartments which we shared with a co-worker. There was stress involved in the living conditions. We had made some potato whiskey and watching a video of a new Star Trek movie in the apartment.
I had passed out and woke up when this guy unzipped me. I was pissed, I do not like being touched unless it is a she and then wonder about STD's. We had a discussion and I found out he was "bi", a bunch of emotional baggage which was fine by me but he had betrayed my trust. He was not a bad person, but in that situation, under those circumstances I could not trust him. In tight groups under hostile circumstances one does not want to have to deal with emotional baggage, or being groped because of insecurities.
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Then the problem wasn't his sexual orientation, but a more basic principle of lacking respect for his fellow soldier. Most gays would keep to the same "hands off" courtesy as most heterosexuals.