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Why the ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy is doomed

By Alliance Alert

David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey writing in The Washington Post: "[The equal protection standard] would not be the end of the court's inquiry when 'don't ask, don't tell' is challenged, since it is the court's assessment of Congress's conclusions that must in the end govern. Yet the fact that the military's senior leadership (both in and out of uniform) sees no significant threat to unit cohesion and combat effectiveness from permitting openly gay men and women to serve will make it all but impossible for Congress to articulate a rational basis for excluding them. "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).