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Monitor: Reaction in the British press to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights on homosexuals in the armed forces ALL THE NEWS OF THE WORLD
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TODAY IT looks like a long-overdue progressive move. Tomorrow it
will look as natural as the right to vote. But before homosexual and
lesbian personnel are openly integrated into the British armed
services - as the European Court of Human Rights insisted yesterday
that they should be - ministers face a battle with the military. No
one should underrate the challenge. Our armed services remain among
the most reactionary in the Western world. They are not just
homophobic, but deeply racist and p...
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