Homos Lose Another One
Well, the Supreme Court upheld the Solomon Amendment today.
This was a really important case, in many ways much more important than "gay marriage" and of course about 1% of the gay population even knew about it because it's not quite so melodramatic as the right to register at Bloomingdales.
In a nutshell:
Many law schools were prohibiting military recruiters on campus citing their own doctrine which insists that companies that participate in their job fairs not discriminate on the basis of sexuality.
Congress went ballistic and enacted the "Solomon Amendment" which penalized the universities for penalizing the military. How did they penalize the schools? By cutting off all federal funding to all of the school, not just the law school. Yale alone stood to lose 300 million dollars in financing. This is the kind of money that can do things like build new wings and hire new talent and bestow scholarships.
But, the Supreme Court decided that the military is different from other entities as they have a constitutional right to recruit to keep the country safe.
So, the ultimate message from the highest court is that if you try to fight "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" you will be crushed. And it's OK to discriminate against gays. That goes without saying.
This was a really important case, in many ways much more important than "gay marriage" and of course about 1% of the gay population even knew about it because it's not quite so melodramatic as the right to register at Bloomingdales.
In a nutshell:
Many law schools were prohibiting military recruiters on campus citing their own doctrine which insists that companies that participate in their job fairs not discriminate on the basis of sexuality.
Congress went ballistic and enacted the "Solomon Amendment" which penalized the universities for penalizing the military. How did they penalize the schools? By cutting off all federal funding to all of the school, not just the law school. Yale alone stood to lose 300 million dollars in financing. This is the kind of money that can do things like build new wings and hire new talent and bestow scholarships.
But, the Supreme Court decided that the military is different from other entities as they have a constitutional right to recruit to keep the country safe.
So, the ultimate message from the highest court is that if you try to fight "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" you will be crushed. And it's OK to discriminate against gays. That goes without saying.
posted by Bart at 10:15 PM
1 Comments:
Oh man, it's just the tip of the iceberg, now that Alito and Roberts are in. Just imagine how many more fubar rulings are in EVERYONE'S future, not just us homos. Our military state is out of control...do you know that currently 60 cents out of every dollar of federal tax money is going to the military-industrial complex, one way or another? That, my friend, is some fucked up shit. I can't believe how screwed up our priorities are.
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