They'll probably win, but under the circumstances why do they want to?
Yeah justice and all that, I really do understand.
But they're going to wind up in segregated barracks like Black folks were, and for the same reason: the segregators have issues. And no, much respect but I'd not have been a Tuskeegee airman.
Pentagon Policy on Gays Is Challenged
Associated Press
Monday, December 6, 2004; Page A09
The Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is being challenged by 12 gays who have been separated from the military because of their homosexuality.
They planned to file a federal lawsuit today in Boston that would cite last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling that overturned state laws making gay sex a crime as grounds for overturning the policy.
Other courts have upheld the 11-year-old policy, but C. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, which is advising the plaintiffs, said those decisions predated the 2003 Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas.
"We think the gay ban can no longer survive constitutionally," he said.
