www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0033434.cfm
August 25, 2004
by Steve Jordahl, correspondent
The U.S. armed forces will continue its opposition to homosexual acts, while gay activists promise to continue to do everything they can to fight it.
The military's highest criminal court has upheld the armed services' ban on sodomy, but gay activists are promising to keep challenging it.
Their goal is to succeed in replicating Lawrence v. Texas—a 2003 Supreme Court decision against sodomy laws—in the military world.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled homosexual conduct illegal under Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but declined to address the effect of the Lawrence v. Texas decision on military law.
In prior challenges, though, the U.S. Supreme Court held that civil law can not necessarily be used as precedent in military matters.