With repeal by Congress of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," the Anti-Defamation League offered its services to the U.S. military to implement a military version of the hate crimes laws it has proliferated throughout the Western world.
“The League stands ready to use its anti-bias screening expertise to help the service branches implement this new policy, permitting the full integration of gays and lesbians into the armed forces.” (ADL.org, “ADL Hails Historic Repeal of ’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Dec. 20, 2010)
The military will now officially allow service members opportunity for same-sex activity on leave (including in homosexual bathhouses) just as military authorities have looked the other way for millennia as soldiers have visited brothels. The general rule is contained in Article 131 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It only prohibits “conduct which is of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, or conduct which is prejudicial to good order and discipline.” In other words, discreet sexual activity which does not affect the discipline or reputation of the military probably won’t be prosecuted. A certain element of DADT has thus always existed in the military’s attitude to troops’ sexual activity in their free time.
But ADL will take the repeal of DADT much further if it becomes the teacher of “tolerance” to the armed forces. Historically, free speech in the military has not included the right to publicly criticize or foment insubordination against higher command. But it has allowed Biblically based criticism of fornication, adultery and homosexuality, even from the pulpit by chaplains.
