"Navy to discharge 19 women based on alleged sexual orientation"

In a press conference setting, attorney Susan McGreivy of the ACLU states 19 women crew members aboard the USS Norton Sound have received papers of administrative separation from the Navy due to "unsuitability due to homosexual acts." McGreivy details the unfair process leading to the charges in which investigators cited anonymous informants to identify the women. She further explains the ACLU's plans to defend the women in federal court and to obtain a restraining order to keep them from being processed out of the service. McGreivy also speaks against the unjust Navy policy that allows careers to be destroyed based on hearsay evidence and calls for the White House to halt the discriminatory practices of "queer hunting" in the military.

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