[Ken H]

Homosexuals should never be sent to represent our country nor be in sensitive positions which need security clearance.

Fine, there are reasons for that. However, one of the reasons should NOT be because we might offend the muzzies. That's bowing down to them.

[Cvengr]

The purpose for foreign service and statesmanship does not include provoking hostility and adversity except in war, when one seeks to change the volition of an enemy to your own.