The West Wing, Season One

Major Tate:
Sir, we're not prejudiced toward homosexuals.

Admiral Fitzwallace:
You just don't want to see them serving in the Armed Forces?

Major Tate:
No, sir, I don't.

Admiral Fitzwallace:
'Cause they impose a threat to unit discipline and cohesion.

Major Tate:
Yes, sir.

Admiral Fitzwallace:
That's what I think, too. I also think the military wasn't designed to be an instrument of social change.

Major Tate:
Yes, sir.

Admiral Fitzwallace:
The problem with that is, that's what they were saying to me fifty years ago. "Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit." You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I'm an admiral in the U.S. Navy and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... Beat that with a stick.