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Clip: Republican Presidential Candidates Debate

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Nov 28, 2007

Clip: Republican Presidential Candidates Debate

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00:00:01 HAVING OPENLY HOMOSEXUAL PEOPLE SERVING IN THE RANKS WOULD BE BAD FOR UNIT COHESION.
00:00:07 AND THE REASON FOR THAT -- EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE POINT TO THE ISRAELIS AND POINT TO THE BRITS AND OTHER PEOPLE AS HAVING HOMOSEXUALS SERVE, IS THAT MOST AMERICANS, MOST KIDS WHO LEAVE THAT BREAKFAST TABLE AND GO OUT AND SERVE IN THE MILITARY AND MAKE THAT CORPORATE DECISION WITH THEIR FAMILY, MOST OF THEM ARE CONSERVATIVES.
00:00:24 AND THEY HAVE CONSERVATIVE VALUES.
00:00:26 AND THEY HAVE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES.
00:00:29 AND TO FORCE THOSE PEOPLE TO WORK IN A SMALL TIGHT UNIT WITH SOMEBODY WHO IS OPENLY HOMOSEXUAL, WHO GOES AGAINST WHAT THEY BELIEVE TO BE THEIR PRINCIPLES AND IT IS THEIR PRINCIPLES, IS I THINK A DISSERVICE TO THEM AND I AGREE WITH COLIN POWELL THAT IT WOULD BE BAD FOR UNIT COHESION.
00:00:48 [APPLAUSE] >> I WANT TO DIRECT THIS TO GOVERNOR HUCKABEE.
00:00:52 30 SECONDS.
00:00:53 >> THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE IS PROBABLY THE BEST RULE AND IT HAS TO DO WITH CONDUCT.
00:00:59 PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE WHATEVER FEELINGS, WHATEVER ATTITUDES THEY WISH.
00:01:03 BUT WHEN THEIR CONDUCT COULD PUT AT RISK THE MORALE OR PUT AT RISK EVEN THE COHESION THAT DUNCAN HUNTER SPOKE OF, I THINK THAT'S WHAT IS AT ISSUE.
00:01:15 AND THAT'S WHY OUR POLICY IS WHAT IT IS.
00:01:17 >> GOVERNOR ROMNEY YOU SAID IN 1994, YOU LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN GAYS AND LESBIANS COULD SERVE AND I, QUOTE, OPENLY AND HONESTLY IN OUR NATION'S