Federal Court Rules "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Unconstitutional"!!!

More progress!!!!!
A federal court in Riverside, California, ruled Thursday that the military’s discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits lesbians and gay men
from serving openly in the armed forces, is unconstitutional!
U.S. district judge Virginia A. Phillips wrote in the 86-page opinion handed down late Thursday that the DADT statute violates the Fifth and First amendments.
AMAZING!!!!!
Phillips said the policy doesn’t help military readiness and instead has a “direct and deleterious effect” on the armed services.
Government lawyers argued that Phillips lacked the authority to issue a nationwide injunction and Congress should decide the policy’s fate.
The U.S. House voted in May to repeal the policy, and the Senate is expected to address the issue this summer.
Equality is inevitable!!!!