Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks")

And loudly. Nope...no childish homophobia rearing its ugly little head full of bigoted assumptions here.

Marine officer: Gays, straights shouldn't share housing

The Marine Corps' top officer says he would want to avoid housing gay and heterosexual Marines in the same rooms on base if the ban on gays openly serving in the military is lifted.

"I would not ask our Marines to live with someone that's homosexual if we can possibly avoid it," Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway told a Web site in an interview posted Friday. "And to me that means we've got to build [barracks] that have single rooms."

Asked about the possibility of gay and straight Marines living together, Conway told the site Military.com that he would "want to preserve the right of a Marine that thinks he or she wouldn't want to do that -- and that's the overwhelming number of people that say they wouldn't like to do so."

Conway said the Marine Corps is the only branch of the armed services that houses two to a room.

Or :

"Yeah, gays are ok, I guess, but I wouldn't want one to marry my son or daughter."

I wonder if the preserving the rights of marines who didn't want to room with with a Black was used as an excuse when racial integration in the military was first implemented?