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...review decisions by . . . military commanders deferentially." In the name of national defense, the court has repeatedly yielded to the military on issues ranging from a prohibition of yarmulkes to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. To this, Kevin Cathcart, executive director of the gay-rights group Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, responds, "The military has the right to put some limitation on things like First Amendment rights. But the question is, Where is the balance between constitutional protections and military necessity? . . . The military is defining it in an inappropriate place...
None of which will dissuade the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and the A.C.L.U.'s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project from initiating a class-action suit against the Department of Defense on First and Fifth Amendment grounds this week, in anticipation of the policy's October introduction. Some of the plaintiffs will allow themselves to be named. Others have elected to remain anonymous -- hoping to challenge Sam Nunn's rebuttable presumption without affording their military employers an opportunity to clobber them with...
...announcement and Powell's speech during the afternoon ceremonies were greeted with some vocal protest, but also with loud cheering. Brad B. Sears, a member of the Harvard Law School Lambda and the Commencement Pride Coalition, said he was satisfied with the response to Powell...
...military: harassment of straight colleagues, fondling or staring in the showers, nocturnal visits to unsuspecting bunkmates. "In every case I know of, someone told someone about a person's sexual orientation or that person was asked a question during a security clearance," says Kevin Cathcart, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay civil rights group. Sometimes the outings are coerced. Confronted by investigators, gays are often told to name names if they want an honorable rather than a general discharge...
Thompson's cause won widespread support from gay-rights groups, which want homosexual partners to enjoy legal rights comparable to those of married couples. The decision, says Paula Ettelbrick, attorney with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York City, a gay-rights group, "begins the process of recognizing that lesbian and gay couples share the kind of commitment that married couples...