>Don't Ask Don't tell.
>
>In other words, being a "homosexual" (regardless of behavior) can get
>you discharged from the military if you reveal the fact.
>
>That's pretty close to a law _not_ against sodomy but against the
>identity of "homosexual."
>
>Carrol
But that's not what don't ask don't tell, a policy not a law, says. It seems carefully worded to discharge based on conduct and "revealing the fact" is considered conduct :
Sexual orientation will not be a bar to service unless manifested by homosexual conduct. The military will discharge members who engage in homosexual conduct, which is defined as a homosexual act, a statement that the member is homosexual or bisexual, or a marriage or attempted marriage to someone of the same gender. – quoted in "The Pentagon's New Policy Guidelines on Homosexuals in the Military", <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times>The New York Times (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_20>July 20, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993>1993), p.A14.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_ask,_don't_tell