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But it's exactly that assumption that bothers those who worry about a "litmus test"--the idea Gore would give a privileged position to the gay issue, ruling out a candidate who was otherwise a military genius and inspirational leader solely because he had (in Gore's mind) retrograde views on gays.
Of course, Gore said, he "would not use a litmus test."
The whole context was Peter Jennings' question about whether Gore or Bradley would apply a "litmus test" to Joint Chiefs nominees like that occasionally applied, controversially, to Supreme Court nominees.
The only "litmus test," explained his adviser Robert Shrum, was the banal "constitutional one, civilian control of the military."
(Otherwise Gore would have said, "You don't need a litmus test, because they have to obey the policy whatever their personal views are."