[NormsRevenge]

Lawrence R. Hoffman, a Garden Grove resident, is a Professor Emeritus at Long Beach City College.

[Noachian]

Joshua Rosenkranz, who represents the NYU law school, offered this explanation: "In a free society, the government cannot co-opt private institutions to issue the government's message."

If we follow Rosenkranz's line of logic then the opposite must be true as well:

"In a free society, the government cannot co-opt private institutions (churches) to issue criticise the government's message."

But, I doubt Rosenkrantz would agree.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Aren't the Courts infringing on the first amendment rights of STUDENTS, who want to hear the recruiter's message?

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

The court explained that educational institutions have a First Amendment right to keep military recruiters off their campuses to protest the Defense Department policy of excluding gays from military service.

If colleges can bar the military from recruitment on campuses based on the military's exclusion of gays, can they then ban any organization that has exclusive membership requirements?

[blackeagle]

bump

[StonyBurk]

As I wrote to Harvard U. I have contacted my almamater to
say the veritas is the military need not recruit at our
institutes of higher? education--the veritas is one cannot
find the best and /or brightest in a freaking bathhouse.
Exclusion is the Law --Don't ask Don't tell foolish policy
but homosexual behavior is NOT will Never be compatible with military service.

[Mark Felton]

First Amendment extends to the military, too

No. it does not.

[hattend]

Relevent again.

"I agree with this; however, it seems to me that an educational institution that relies on federal government funding - as practically all do in some way - is not a private institution and therefore is not covered by that statement and exempted from the Solomon Amendment."

All that needs to be said.