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Arthur L Miller, a representative of the government was the one who decided to add the

amendment to ban gays from the federal government. He was the one who compared this issue to stinking flesh of a skeleton and saw homosexuals as a threat to the government. It was brought up that there was a rise in publicity about homosexuals in the government which brought this so-called issue to the forefront. The individuals that were fired due to their homosexuality in government roles were addressed by Miller through him questioning where they actually went and if they had just ended up in a different government position. All of this was his argument for the amendment to protect the government from the threat of homosexuals. Another claim he had made was that homosexuality could be traced back to Orientals and Russians also believe in this form of sexuality. This could lead to these supporters landing positions in the state department which then again could pose a threat.

Homosexuals were categorized with the “criminally insane” and “morally deprived”; this came about because of the new science behind sexual orientations and their involvements in institutions in the United States.

The need for troops allowed for holes in the rules regarding the accepting/rejection of gays to fight in war. Around 4,000-5,000 out of 18 million men that had been in consideration were turned away.

The State Department was significantly less affected in regards to the homosexual community within their practice. They were seen by the public as wealthy and mostly Ivy-League graduates. When a survey was given in 1944 regarding the publics opinion where 77 percent stated that the “U.S. Foreign Service was doing a “good job”. Of the complaints listed there was nothing stated in reference to sexual orientation or behavior. This quickly diminished when there was an attempt in 1947 to implement president Trumen’s executive order. This order was to make a loyalty program for all employees where homosexuals were excluded. The order said nothing in relation to sexual orientation but the state department relied on “civil service rules, which forbode the appointment of those who were known to have displayed “immoral or notoriously disgraceful conduct””. 91 people had been released from the state department on grounds of homosexuality. This had come to the public’s attention where it caught negative attention. 25,000 letters were sampled that were sent to Mccarthy where 75 percent “expressed their shocked indignation at the evidence of sex depravity”. In 1950, 54 gays were let go from the state department and in 1951 there were 119 let go.

The term “Homintern” was frequently used which meant homosexual international. This was coined in the 1930s by Cyril Connolly, W.H Auden, and Harold Norse. It was first used to describe gay men in the art world but then was used in reference to “a fantastical gay international that sought to control the world”. There was an article written by R. G Waldeck that argued that the gays being subject to blackmail was a miniscule problem in the grand scheme of the homosexual issues.