Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 67

Short Answer

Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.
Gays in the military? If we allow that, then next we'll be letting women into the men's barracks. And the next thing you know, women, men, gays, everyone-they'll all be showering together and sleeping in the same bunks. Get real.

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