Kristin Beck: “I’m fighting for equality, dignity and respect...Manning is doing the opposite"

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26. Uh, living under irrationally suppressive rules and regulations that require you to lie about your

essential self creates emotional stress. It is not your essence that is to blame, it is the culture of bigotry and lies that is to blame. Being forced to lie makes emotional problems, be that lie about one's sexuality, parentage, religion or anything else.
You see it as blaming the person who is say oppressed I see that defense as damning the military culture as sick, twisted and based on lies and closets for all.
So. In some times of history, Jewish people pretended not to be Jewish to avoid death and prison. If I said that having to hide their faith caused them undue stress would that be saying Jewish = Stressed or would that be saying Oppressed = Stressed.