CASE COMMENTS

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” statute (DADT), enacted by Congress in 1993, allows homosexuals into the military if they do not engage in homosexual conduct.[1] Congress created DADT to preserve the morale and unit cohesion standards of the military, but the statute is often sc...   MORE>>

CASE COMMENTS

A 1962 Department of Defense (DOD) directive authorizes the discharge from service of military members with religiously based conscientious objections to war.[1] A conscientious objection is “a firm, fixed and sincere objection to participation in war in any form . . . because of ...   MORE>>

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things:

freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. [1]

—Mark Twain

I. INTRODUCTION

The ability of people to object to, and thus disregard, legal r...   MORE>>