Sexual Discrimination In The Military

“Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy was created in 1993 under the administration of President Clinton. The U.S military adopted this policy in order to allow homosexual or bisexual individuals serve in military forces under the condition that they not openly reveal their sexual orientation. This policy also specified that superiors should not initiate investigation of a service member's orientation without credible evidence of homosexual behavior. However, this policy has proven to have major flaws, though it was created to enable homosexuals to be part of the armed forces, anyone who openly demonstrate their homosexual iclinacion is punished with immediate discharge of the military, because they argued that homosexual’s members presence would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, discipline, and unit cohesion of military capability. Since "do not ask, do not tell" policy was adopted, has created a lot of controversy and demands of members of the armed forces who were discharged from the military because of their sexual inclination. This has cost the government and the United States Military millions of dollars …show more content…
As the author David J. Walsh Indicated, "the U.S Constitution offers somewhat protection against sexual discrimination, but only to public employees." (p.378) In my opinion, the discrimination against an employee (whether employed in the public or government area) because of their sexual orientation is unconstitutional. Most of the soldiers in the armed forces are serving this country because they are loyal and have a genuine vocation, therefore, the acceptance to be part of the armed forces should not be based because of their sexual