CNSNews.com is reporting that the latest National Defense Authorization Act contains a provision that will repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). This Article makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals.
It states: “(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense. (b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
According to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, the effort to repeal Article 125 is the result of liberal Senate Democrats’ and President Obama’s support for removing the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.
“It’s all about using the military to advance this administration’s radical social agenda,” Perkins told CNSNews.com. “Not only did they overturn Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, but they had another problem, and that is, under military law sodomy is illegal, just as adultery is illegal, so they had to remove that prohibition against sodomy.”
Perkins said removing the bestiality provision may have been intentional–or just “collateral damage”
“Well, whether it was inadvertent or not, they have also taken out the provision against bestiality,” he said. “So now, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), there’s nothing there to prosecute bestiality.”
Thus far, there has been no effort made to remove the repeal provision and the National Defense Authorization bill, with the repeal included, is expected to pass in the Senate.
But that won't be the end of the story. Once the bill passes, the Senate version will have to go to a conference committee with the House where the repeal is expected to run into trouble.
“The House in their version of the defense authorization, reinforced the Defense of Marriage Act, saying that there is a military DOMA as well, prohibiting same-sex marriage on military bases – something the Department of Defense is pushing for,” Perkins said.
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