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GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY DRAFT. GENDER
DISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY DRAFT To secure the ...
... to work in the military is not sexual discrimination. ... employed one of the most
conservative gender-policies of ... and the Military in the United States and Canada ...
... of national origin, race, gender, sexual orientation ... (United States Army, 2004) The
military would lead the ... and many cases of extreme discrimination that would ...
... There is now a law against discrimination in the ... and various other places) based
on a persons gender. ... been deemed appropriate for life in the United States? ...
... but they are the majority gender of enrolled ... that commission in 1963 documented
discrimination against women ... about restrictions on women in the United States. ...
Submitted by dave_behrens on July 1, 2005
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GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY DRAFT
To secure the continuing existence of the United States democracy against intractable religious fanaticism, whose goal is nothing less than a Muslim theocracy for all of Planet Earth, it is inevitable that general military conscription will again be implemented following the 2004 Presidential Election, despite political protestation to the contrary. Indeed, a ‘backdoor' draft, imposed by the Bush administration, has existed in our military for more than a two years, whereby current personnel are forced to serve past their retirement or end-of-enlistment dates.
With very rare exceptions, every male residing in the United States 18 to 26 years of age is required by the Military Selective Service Act to register with the Selective Service System, and thereby subject himself to the possibility of involuntary military service. Yet, with the ongoing War on Islamic Terrorism, the prosecution of which has required the deployment of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military personnel, and stretched the National Guard and Reserve to its limit, absolutely no female in the U.S. is required to register. This clear fact of gender discrimination has not been focused upon in public discussions because an active draft has not been in effect since 1973.
The United States Selective Service System offers on its Website a short history of the draft with respect to women. The primary reason given for non-registration of women is a Supreme Court decision, Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981). Simply stated, it says that since all men registered with the Selective Service are considered combat replacements, and since Congress forbids women to go into combat, women should not be registered. Of course, this reasoning is absurd, since it presupposes that absolutely every male called for involuntary military service will be used exclusively for combat, and conversely that...
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