This does have everything to do with gays in the military, but more or less, indiscrete gays in the military. Open sexuality is generally always against military policy, it is wrong, while I am serving in the field to commit indiscrete sexual acts with other military personnel. Whether you are gay or not, it does not matter, you should keep your sexuality discrete. Heterosexuals and Homosexuals are obliged to keep about the same conduct. Now there could be issues with some gay man worrying about showing some picture of his “boyfriend” or his “same-sex domestic partner” back at home, but that’s a separate matter. The real fact is that DADT is the best policy we have in place now for keeping decent morale in the military. As sex acts amongst members of the military are the problem, it asks the same obligation. DADT is politicians’ best propaganda tool for looking good to homosexuals.
I agree with you wholeheartedly that the judiciary is a problem. I have seen judges favor everything from illegal immigration to abortion, even legislate on the matter, and it’s only a matter of time that the judiciary will bankrupt this nation, until someone counteracts them.
Actually, I think we are talking about different things. The administration does want to repeal “Don’t ask Don’t Tell”, but to do it this way opens them up to being overturned on much of their agenda by other judges.
During the case in court they didn’t even present a defense, they just argued the history of the rule. They didn’t want it affirmed, which would later be a problem when they wanted to repeal DADT, they wanted it killed on procedural grounds. When that didn’t happen they fell back to contesting it and having it die in the courts.