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Line 5: − + − Liberals immediately criticized his remarks:<ref>''Id.''</ref>+ − + − − General Pace refused to apologize for his remarks, saying only that "I should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views."<ref>''Id.''</ref>
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In an interview by the [[Chicago Tribune]] on March 11, 2007, Pace reportedly said:<ref>http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-11/1173832810104280.xml&storylist=topstories</ref>
In an interview by the [[Chicago Tribune]] on March 11, 2007, Pace reportedly said:<ref>http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-11/1173832810104280.xml&storylist=topstories</ref>
:I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the armed forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way. ...
:I believe that [[homosexual]] acts between individuals are [[immoral]] and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the armed forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way. ...
:As an individual, I would not want (acceptance of gay behavior) to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior.
:As an individual, I would not want (acceptance of gay behavior) to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior.
Liberal activists criticized his remarks:<ref>''Id.''</ref>
* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) said, "We need the most talented people; we need the language skills. We need patriotic Americans who exist across the board in our population. We don't need moral judgment from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs."
* House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] (D-Cal.) said, "We don't need moral judgment from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs."
*Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., who sponsored a bill to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, declared, "Our military is struggling to find and keep the soldiers we need. We are turning away good troops to enforce a costly policy of discrimination."
*Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., who sponsored a bill to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, declared, "Our military is struggling to find and keep the soldiers we need. We are turning away good troops to enforce a costly policy of discrimination."
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