Word: crittenden
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...answer the first argument one must look no further than a recent and comprehensive report by the Rand Corporation (a think-tank with ties to the Department of Defense) on the effects of integrating gays into the military. This report, like the Navy's 1957 Crittenden Report, blows holes in the military's justifications for forbidding gays, lesbians and bisexuals from serving in the armed forces. Once again, it demonstrates that sexual orientation, in itself, has no bearing on job performance...
After his election, Lincoln instructed his supporters to oppose a last- minute attempt to save the Union by giving assurances to the South -- the so-called Crittenden amendment. But in his first Inaugural Address he reversed himself and expressed support for the amendment "to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service." As President, Lincoln tried for years to exclude slavery from his war aims, and actually reimposed slavery after two of his generals manumitted slaves in Southern areas they held. Horace Greeley and other...