Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: SeekAndFind

Why not just let the military create their own policy on this issue?


2 posted on 01/04/2011 8:59:35 AM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
They Have! Article 125 of the UCMJ

“(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.

(b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall by punished as a court-martial may direct.”

5 posted on 01/04/2011 9:02:55 AM PST by KC_Lion (Lord help our Armed Service members that they not become pawns in Hussein's quest to destroy America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
Why not just let the military create their own policy on this issue?

That's the way it was before DADT was imposed on them by the Clinton administration/congress.

12 posted on 01/04/2011 9:11:18 AM PST by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

To: Weird Tolkienish Figure
Why not just let the military create their own policy on this issue?

Because the Constitution says that it is Congress, not the military, which is to "make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces." (U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 14).

74 posted on 01/04/2011 11:26:39 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson