My dissertation advisor was a man of the left in most things, but on this issue, he would always ask the question: “Would you want to serve on a submarine with one [a gay man]?” This inevitably obliged the person suggesting that homosexuality would not create morale problems to change the subject, or stammer something incoherent.
Maybe he’ll raise the matter with Congressman Sestak sometime. (We both know his sister—she was the business administrator for the Penn math dept for years—and my advisor was a big-wig in the ‘reform’= anti-Rizzo Democrats in Philly.)
Good point. I was on anuclear sub for 6 years. The thought of an openly gay serving on board is/was abhorent to me.