The Pentagon's Gay Ban is Not Based on Military Necessity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3620209
AutoresAaron Belkin (University of California, Santa Barbara, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen41
Número1
Páginas103-119
Fecha de publicación2001-06-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v41n01_03
PMID11453513
OpenAlexW2009637528
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas10

When President Bill Clinton attempted to lift the U.S. military's ban on gay and lesbian soldiers, Congress reacted by enacting a law that prohibits known homosexuals from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The official justification for the new policy is the unit cohesion rationale, the notion that if known gays and lesbians were allowed to serve, unit cohesion, performance, readiness and morale would decline. The thesis of this paper is that the evidence that advocates of discrimination invoke to support the plausibility of the unit cohesion rationale does not constitute scientifically valid data. This paper was delivered originally as a lecture at the Commonwealth Club of California and broadcast subsequently on National Public Radio

Cohesion (chemistry · Commonwealth · Criminology · Homosexuality · Lesbian · Pentagon · Political science · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology