This was a federal lawsuit against the military. I would assume that any ruling purporting to bind the government beyond the military would be dicta. The law frowns on attempts to apply a ruling wider than was actually argued at court or where wider interests were neither warned nor represented by counsel at the trial. It is why much of a decision may be considered dicta. Nothing stops an ambitious jurist from trying to broaden the ruling but it doesn’t work.
[[The law frowns on attempts to apply a ruling wider than was actually argued at court or where wider interests were neither warned nor represented by counsel at the trial.]]
That makes sense- i can see lawyers in the future arguing for the same kind of law against civilian businesses too based on the ruling of this lawsuit under the argument that it’s ‘discrimination’ if businesses don’t allow such things based on the ruling in the military- I think unfortunately it’ only a matter of time before it becomes national in a universal manner-