Last week in the cavernous hearing room of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sam Nunn was again belaboring the proposed regulation on homosexuals in the military. The Senator from Georgia wanted to nail down exactly what sorts of statements by a soldier would trigger a "rebuttable presumption" that he or she was engaged in gay conduct -- a legal finding that, despite its name, experts say is almost impossible to rebut.
With studied dramatics, Nunn posed several possible statements to Defense Department general counsel Jamie Gorelick. "I am a homosexual," he read from his paper. "Yes," answered Gorelick, that would trigger...
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