Quick shout-out to the folks over at the Yale School of Law (above), who have penned a letter to President Obama asking him to repeal the US Military’s notorious Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell policy regarding gay folk in the armed services.
The letter was co-written with the Law School’s LGBT student organization, OutLaws, in partnership with the Yale Law Veterans Association.
The letter was presented to Military recruiters at a Law School career fair last month — the same fair which last year saw OutLaw members vocally picket and protest.
Yale, it appears, is in a bit of a pickle when it comes to those recruiters. On one hand, the University refuses to allow potential employers lacking comprehensive non-discrimination policies to solicit its students. On the other hand, the 14 year-old Solomon Amendment puts Yale at risk of losing millions of dollars of federal funding if it bans the military from campus job fairs.
Back in 2005, 45 members of the Yale Law School faculty sued the Defense Department to challenge the constitutionality the Solomon Amendment, which it lost two years later.
So today, Yale waives the non-discrimination policy for those military recruiters.
Seems as if even if Yale’s Law community would like to replace “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell” with “Don’t Recruit”!