If you put together a Vietnam legacy, a gay rights ideology, the idea that courts can solve all problems and the legal academy's echo chamber, you get this result.

You really need the best people in the JAG Corp. Look at what's happened with torture and treatment of detainees. You want the best advisers to the political administration you can get.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive,

I'm not a gay rights activist.

Gay rights are human rights.

It may be that John and others didn't see this case as a gay-rights case.