The Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in favor of allowing military recruiting on US college and university campuses. This is a landmark decision for the US Armed Forces, because some colleges had previously banned the military recruiters. While some student and faculty may not agree with the decision, I believe it was the right verdict.

The controversy centers around the military's policy "don't ask, don't tell" regarding sexual orientation. The US military will allow gays, lesbians, and bi-sexual to join the US Armed Forces as long as these individuals do not publicly reveal this information regarding their sexual preference. Due to this military policy, some college campuses had prevented military recruiters from their facilities. Many of these institutions were led to this decision by the policy's discriminatory mandate of not allowing potential enlistees to be open with their sexual identity unless heterosexual.

Oddly enough, I agree with the Supreme Court that military recruiters should be allowed on all college or university campuses, otherwise forfeit US Government funding. The institutions were unable to show how they would adversely affected by the presence of military recruiters on their campuses. If there is not a foreseeable injury, then the college or university has no other legal options to pursue against the US military. While I believe the military's policy is quite discriminative, the individual enlistee would have a legitimate case versus US Armed Forces, in regards to their "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

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