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On the recordDecember 14, 2010
And to my friend who said history will judge us poorly, I would submit, if you will look thoroughly at history -- and I'm not saying it's cause and effect -- but when militaries throughout history of the greatest nations in the world have adopted the policy that fine for homosexuality to be overt -- if you can keep it private and control your hormones, fine -- if you can't, that's fine, too -- they're toward the end of their existence as a great nation.
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas

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Gohmert argues against the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' by suggesting that militaries that allow open homosexuality decline as great nations.

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