The Supreme Court has come down with a decision to reject law schools’ free-speech challenge to the Soloman Amendment. The universities claimed that they shouldn’t be expected to promote or take part in military recruitment on their campuses, due to disagreement with the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. Despite the dispute, the court upheld the law, which requires universities to give the military the same access they would to other recruiters or forgo the $35 billion received by the federal government each year.
Just because the military uses one’s campus to recruit does not mean you have to agree with their policy on homosexuals in the armed forces. But by accepting the federal government’s $35 billion,
Though some university officials have a problem with military recruiters, by hosting their recruitment events on campus those, their mere presence on campuses does not mean that they are thereby supporting the military’s position on gays in the armed forces.