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Can Don't Ask Don't Tell survive the "Witt" standard?
The federal courts are now requiring to demonstrate that before discharging a particular gay servicemember they must prove that discharging that specific person will add to unit cohesion, morale, or readiness. It seems that such a standard must spell the death of DADT, first because of the burden involved and second because in hardly any case could it actually be demonstrated. The judge who ruled on Major Whitt's case found that discharging her degraded those performance factors...
This judge was appointed by George W Bush and first ruled against her until the appeals court ordered him to make an individual determination.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
That's actually a pretty ingenious yet effective way of neutralizing DADT while it is still in effect. I think either way though DADT is going bye bye.
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
DADT is going to die a slow painful death. Honestly, I want it off the books because people who are qualified (as gays who are qualified to do everything else and we have studies that show people aren't willing to hire, promote and will even fire gay employees) have to hide who they are, which hurts military cohesion and I am sure that all of the militaries of the world that allow gays to serve openly have reported unit cohesion is unaffected