Legal Opinion
Watson v. Perry
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided March 7, 1996No. C95-1141ZPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ZILLY, District Judge.
After fourteen years of exemplary military service, Lieutenant Richard P. Watson sub mitted a statement to his commanding officer declaring that he had a “homosexual orientation,” and stating that he would not “rebut the [statutory] presumption” that service-members who state they are homosexuals engage in or have a propensity to engage in homosexual conduct. Pursuant to the Department of Defense’s so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding homosexuals in the military, the Navy instituted discharge proceedings against Lt. Watson. Based on Watson’s initial…
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