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Discrimination In Military

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People who are homosexuals are discriminated for their sexual orientation greatly in the United States. In our military, these people still have faced discrimination. “The government worries that allowing non-heterosexuals in the military that there will be reductions in military efficiency, spread sexually transmitted diseases, increase in sexual harassment and fraternization, violate physical privacy, and destroy order and discipline”(http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/out_in_force.html). How is it fair to blame all these things will happen because of homosexuals? There even is a compromise labeled as “Don’t ask, Don’t tell, Don’t pursue” that came out in 1993. This compromise basically means that if you’re going to serve in the military

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