No Reason to Bow to the 'Supreme Judicial Commander of the U.S. Military'

Last week the Justice Department filed an immediate appeal in a case brought by a gay activist group calling itself the Log Cabin "Republicans," requesting a stay of a bizarre worldwide injunction that California U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued on October 12. Judge Phillips, who seems to have appointed herself "Supreme Judicial Commander of the U.S. Military," ordered the Defense Department to stop enforcing the 1993 law stating that homosexuals are not eligible for military service, which is usually mislabeled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Somehow the activist judge missed Finding No. 2 in the actual law, "There is no constitutional right to serve in the armed forces." (Section 654, Title 10, U.S.C.) More...