Hmmm, is this the second time in as many months that I get to read an articulate, persuasive, logical and considered
federal court decision, issued after a full evidenciary trial, that completely demolishes the government's discriminatory policies towards gays and lesbians? This time, about Don't Ask Don't Tell?
Oh, in case you hadn't heard, a federal district court judge in Riverside County has ruled Don't Ask Don't Tell unconstitutional, and has ordered the army to stop enforcing it. Turns out DADT violates Americans' free speech rights and due process rights, and is a detriment to, rather than serves, any government interest in military preparedness and military unit cohesion. Whoulda thunk?
Was this barely a month or two after that
other federal district court judge in California demolished the proposition of banning gay marriage?
It's wonderful to read the decisions in these cases - intelligent analysis of trial proceedings with all available witnesses and evidence considered, the law carefully and consistently applied, and justice plainly served. On the other hand, though - the decades of time, the vast amounts of energy and money expended on litigation and trials - all for results that are of the commonest common sense of human D'UH.
