Military morals.Your article "Gays in the Ranks: Who Cares?" [February 27] omitted an extremely important point: Congress passed the Uniform Code of Military Justice The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) was enacted by Congress in 1950 (10 U.S.C.A. § 801 et seq.) to establish a standard set of procedural and substantive criminal laws for all the U.S. military services. (It went into effect the following year. in 1950, in part to enforce Christian morality on all soldiers. Article 125 criminalizes beth oral and anal sodomy sodomy Noncoital carnal copulation. Sodomy is a crime in some jurisdictions. Some sodomy laws, particularly in Middle Eastern countries and those jurisdictions observing Shari'ah law, provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the (even between legally married straights) with a five-year brig term as punishment. This antediluvian legislation also makes adultery a crime, with a one-year brig sentence. So abolishing "don't ask, don't tell" won't change the fact that any military personnel indulging in gay sex will be committing a federal offense since the Supreme Court's voiding of all sodomy laws in 2003 did not apply to the UCMJ An abbreviation for the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C.A. § 801 et seq.). . BEN EDWARD AKERLEY Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Calif. |
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