This comes from a 10 JUN 1993 opinion piece published in The Washington Post and written by arch-Conservative, former GOP Senator from Arizona, and 1964 GOP Presidential nominee:
www.washingtonpost.com/.../?utm_term=.f03f7ec39b18
"THE GAY BAN: JUST PLAIN UN-AMERICAN
By Barry M. Goldwater June 10, 1993
After more than 50 years in the military and politics, I am still amazed to see how upset people can get over nothing. Lifting the ban on gays in the military isn't exactly nothing, but it's pretty damned close.
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. They'll still be serving long after we're all dead and buried. That should not surprise anyone.
But most Americans should be shocked to know that while the country's economy is going down the tubes, the military has wasted a half-billion dollars over the past decade chasing down gays and running them out of the armed services.
It's no great secret that military studies have proven again and again that there's no valid reason for keeping the ban on gays.
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Under our Constitution, everyone is guaranteed the right to do as he pleases as long as it does not harm someone else. You don't need to be "straight" to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
With all the good this country has accomplished and stood for, I know that we can rise to the challenge, do the right thing and lift the ban on gays in the military. Countries with far less leadership and discipline have traveled this way, and successfully.
When you get down to it, no American able to serve should be allowed, much less given an excuse, not to serve his or her country. We need all our talent.
If I were in the Senate today, I would rise on the Senate floor in support of our commander in chief. He may be a Democrat, but he happens to be right on this question.
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It's no different with the top position in the US military otherwise known as being President.
@asker, if you want to leave the US over a gay president, feel free to do so.
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I oppose anything that advances the political agenda of trying to normalize homosexual and lesbian relationships.
That’s never going to happen. He’s not even going to make it to the primaries. The dnc want Biden.
I don't want a gay president. Can you just imagine Iran laughing at us?
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There's literally a gay politician called buttigieg😂?
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His politics is what bothers me.
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Does he know about economics tho
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