Cruz is right.
The warriors should be deciding this and not the politicians, the desk-generals, the political generals, or the commentariat.
exactly.
I'd go farther and restrict the franchise generally, creating something of a Spartiate state similar to the one Robert Heinlein imagined, and Hollywood lampooned (using lots and lots of Nazi imagery) in Starship Troopers.
I wouldn't let foreigners, deviants, women, addicts, or criminals (including people who grab boxes of Swisher Sweets) vote.
Women shouldn't serve in combat arms, combat aircraft, or ships. Any kind of ships. Gay BLT's? Forget it.
Oh, and just for the hell of it, I'd strip tax-exempt status from any "reconciling" church that ordains women or homosexuals. And don't even ask me about mosques. Anybody shows up for registration, or to pay their county taxes, or for jury duty, wearing dishdash, a burqa, an abaya, or niqab, or hijab, or jellaba, or any other form of Moslem dress, will find his ass on the next USAF transport headed for the Middle East, to get jumped at 25,000 feet over western Iraq with a reserve chute (just good enough not to kill him/her).
Since we're all just posting what we want anyway.