LOFTON: We'll try to stop anyone from getting in the military who is a
homosexual, who is an adulterer, who is a fornicator, and then other categories
that indicate a character flaw. Why we shouldn't try to do that?"PAUL: Looking
it in protecting the military if they are going to perform the services, and
they are imperfect -- because we're all imperfect and we all sin. If a
heterosexual or homosexual sins, that to me is the category of dealing with
their own soul. Since we cannot have only perfect people going in the military I
want to separate the two because I don't want to know the heterosexual flaws,
nor the homosexual flaws and that's why I got in some trouble with some of the
civil libertarians because I don't have any problem with Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Because I don't think that, for the practicality of running a military, I'd just
as soon not know every serious thing that any heterosexual or homosexual did,
and those flaws have to do with all our flaws because each and everyone one of
us has those imperfections.
This is actually a some what understandable reason to support don't ask don't tell. It sounds like he is saying that he doesn't want to know what is going on in people's bedrooms. There is some logic to that, but just because something is logical does not mean it is practical.
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