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To: Tailgunner Joe
From the ariticl: Third, although some feminists claim that they have a right to serve if they want to, military service is a privilege and a duty – not a right.

We have a volunteer military. The military has for a long time decided it can use the talents of women. This predates modern "feminism".

Putting women into combat endangers all of our daughters because in the 1986 case Rostker v. Goldberg, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that women could not be drafted because they did not serve in combat, and that Congress had the power only to raise armies to fight wars. A few feminists in the front lines could destroy that exemption.

Mainstream feminist organizations are OPPOSED to the draft, it is part of their mission statement. All the author had to do to find out what feminists advocate, he could read their publically posted statements. If they oppose the draft that means they are not advocating that women be drafted.

58 posted on 04/13/2003 4:04:07 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
When you join up, your choices end. It's not up to them where they are assigned.

Women have been in the military a long time but only since feminists repealed the laws that kept them out of combat are they now sent into harm's way unnecessarily.

Democrats like Charlie Rangel want to bring back the draft so that people will oppose war and the nation will be paralyzed into impotence. Imagine how much more we will be paralyzed when they start talking about drafting women.

It's only a matter of time.

62 posted on 04/13/2003 4:16:22 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Lorianne
"If they oppose the draft that means they are not advocating that women be drafted."

His point is that women should not be fighting! SHEESH!
63 posted on 04/13/2003 4:17:16 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Okie by proxy, raised by Yankees, temporarily Californian)
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