In a series of five studies, about 150 heterosexual men (homosexual men and those with red-green color blindness were excluded) rated photographs of women framed in red, white, gray, green, or blue, or with the woman in a red or blue shirt.
Shortly after his election, Pope Benedict issued new guidelines for the ordination of priests that banned men with "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" from entering the priesthood.
The data cited earlier on the total number of discharges from all armed services for homosexual admission or conduct totals somewhere around 14, 000 men and women who have been separated - most by voluntary admission - over the 17 years in which the law and the DOD policy have been in effect.