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...long conference, Lambda honored Boston College law professor Kent Greenfield for his work in challenging the Solomon Amendment. The day featured panels planning ways to attack the military??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving, and discussing “ex-gay treatment,” a movement by some faith-based groups to alter the sexual orientation of homosexuals...
...prohibiting openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving in the armed forces. “The issue for me is one of discrimination,” Capuano said through his spokeswoman. “If colleges do not want recruiters on campus because of a disagreement with the military??s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, then government should not force them to set aside their own anti-discrimination rules.” Though Frank and Meehan declined to comment specifically on the resolution, Meehan?...
...national interests. Though the outcome of the court’s decision is regrettable, Harvard has made the correct decision by agreeing to aid military recruiters on campus. HLS Dean Elena Kagan ought to be commended, moreover, for urging all members of the Harvard community to robustly oppose the military??s discriminatory employment policies. Her suggestion that students register their disapproval of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by demonstrating against the recruiters seizes upon the single element of Roberts’ opinion that offers cause for hope...
...encouraged students to demonstrate against the presence of recruiters. Her statement came one day after Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 ruled that “law schools remain free under the [Solomon Amendment] to express whatever views they may have on the military??s congressionally mandated employment policy, all the while retaining eligibility for federal funds.”The Solomon Amendment, initially passed in 1994 and most recently updated last year, says that schools receiving federal funds must grant the military “equal access” to students...
...tactic did not sway their former student Roberts—nor did it convince any of the five other justices who attended Harvard Law.The Solomon Amendment requires that schools receiving federal funds must grant military recruiters access to students. But Harvard and other law schools argue that the military??s ban on openly gay service members violates the schools’ nondiscrimination policies.FAIR’s attorney, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, told the court in December that the Solomon Amendment encroaches upon law schools’ freedom of association by forcing them to cooperate with military recruiters...