There was a question about women serving in the armed forces? I know about the issue of women in combat, but I don't recall a big debate (in my lifetime) about women serving in the armed forces.
Homosexuals, bisexuals, cross-dressers, etc. already have due process and equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment. If a homosexual man is arrested, he gets the same due process as a heterosexual man. If a bisexual woman wants to get married, she can marry a man (unless she lives in Massachusetts) like any other woman. What Falwell opposed was creating a new protected class of people, equating them race, etc. Courts have refused to do this.
You are correct sir. Women serving in combat was the issue of the day.
Come on Beach Bum. Does this sound like a man only interested in the judicial vicissitudes of suspect classes?
July 1984: Falwell is forced to pay gay activist Jerry Sloan $5,000 after losing a court battle. During a TV debate in Sacramento, Falwell denied calling the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Churches
“brute beasts” and
“a vile and Satanic system” that will
“one day be utterly annihilated and there will be a celebration in heaven.” When Sloan insisted he had a tape, Falwell promised $5,000 if he could produce it. Sloan did so, Falwell refused to pay and Sloan successfully sued. Falwell appealed, with his attorney charging that the Jewish judge in the case was prejudiced. He lost again and was forced to pay an additional $2,875 in sanctions and court fees.
