Three panelists spoke yesterday at NYU Law School on the recent advances made against the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Organized by OUTLaw, an LGBT advocacy group for NYU Law students, the event was timed to coincide with the arrival of U.S. Navy Judge Advocates General’s Corps recruiters on campus.
DADT has recently come under fire from numerous judges, particularly Federal Judge Virginia Williams. On Oct. 12, Williams granted an injunction prohibiting the military from enforcing the policy. On Oct. 19, military recruiters were told for the first time that they were permitted to accept openly gay people, but DADT has yet to be fully repealed.
The panel, which included Richard Socarides, a former senior advisor to President Clinton, Aaron Tax, legal director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, and R. Clarke Cooper, executive of the Log Cabin Republicans, was mediated by NYU Law professor Kenji Yoshino.
Yoshino began the discussion with an overview of the policy and an acknowledgement of the discussion’s purpose as a protest, saying it was “no mistake” that it was planned the same day as JAG representatives were recruiting students in Furman Hall.
“Today,” he said, “gay students can now apply openly for the first time.”
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