“Seems to me it’s an issue of personal Constitutional Rights posed against a collective right of the country to stay protected, according to the Constitution.”
Seems strange to me that the constitution was well over 150 years along before anyone considered that homosexuals derived a “special status” protection by it. Other than the basic right to not be assaulted or criminally abused, I don’t see that homosexuals have any other rights under the COTUS. As long as there has been a U.S. military, homosexuality was never allowed....goodness even in the Revolutionary War George Washington had homosexuals removed from the Army.
How exactly did he remove them?