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The Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit that would have challenged the existing law which requires only men to serve in the military draft.

As The Hill reports:

The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a lawsuit alleging that the United States’ all-male military draft amounts to unconstitutional discrimination on the basis of sex.

The challenge, brought by a men’s rights group, claimed that the male-only draft is unlawful in light of a 2013 policy shift by the Defense Department that opened up combat roles to women.

Military conditions have changed dramatically since the court upheld the draft law in a 1981 decision in the case of Rostker v. Goldberg. The court at the time ruled 6-3 that the Military Selective Service Act’s male-only requirement was justified because of women’s exclusion from combat roles.

The challengers in the new case, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, had argued that the elimination of sex-based barriers in the military without a concurrent broadening of the draft to include women created unjustified sex-based discrimination against men.

Is it time for women to finally do their part by registering for the draft, or is that a job best left to men? Let us know what you think in the comments below.



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    1. They have already seen the disaster that come from women in combat. Really bad PMS that literally incapacitates the woman. What to do when they get pregnant in the front combat zone.
      Who carries the load of a woman who is weaker. How to keep men from fighting over sex with a promiscuous woman. What to do with homosexuality conflicts that add a whole new range of conflicts.
      Women should not be forced into combat. The Israelis have a unique situation. Their women are different. Tough, Able to carry guns into classrooms where they teach children. Not as immoral and secular American women.

  1. This is so so strange. Women want to be men. Men want to be women. Yet it is only the men who have to fight for our country. If women want to be as they say “equal to men” and have the “same rights as men”, they they should have to be drafted the same as men are. Women want to have their cake and eat it too. Well, not so, ladies.

    1. alot of women cannot pysically do combat. men have more muscle and think differently than women . now if a women muscle builds and wants to that’s ok. equality for women is ok but they will never be equal to men physically unless they take testosterone. i personally like being a women and yes equality in pay is fair but physically no i would never make it.

      1. too old to draft
        Now History proves every thing you said to be wrong, some of the most fearsome warriors in History have been women, just in recent history everyone feared the Germans women infantry, who took no prisoners and killed the wounded so they were not a drag on the operation, in Iraq in the Kurd military women fight right along side of the men on the front lines.
        This USA has taught for years that women were inferior. I was attached to the testing program, during my 26 year military career, when they were putting women in normal jobs in the military, and when it came to putting Women on flight crews, not as pilots but as cargo master and other positions the testing proved that a woman of the same size as a man and had he same training was actually stronger than a man and actually made better decisions in a simulated crisis situation.
        i know several women who are about 5 foot 4 inches who most men should leave aloe if they do not want to be embarrassed or even get their butt kicked.

        1. Bright boy. So which woman would you prefer to live with, take care of, make love to and raise a family with? No, you won’t come up with the correct answer. You are a hypocrite and will play your game. LOL
          Then you proved you do not understand anatomy and physiology. Take the use of muscles. Shorter limbs means better leverage in use for strength.
          I went to buy a compound bow. At over 6 ft. with very long arms, I could not break the bow over as to fire. A small woman walked up and broke it over easily.
          Now IF I had traded punches with her, she would have been OUT COLD.

      2. That doesn’t mean you couldn’t serve in other than combat service. Look at how many women served during WWII and if truth be known they saved our bacon with all their help on providing support in both the private sector and military.

        1. It’s called teamwork. A war is all out, no such thing as non-combatant. Talk to the Vietnam vets about the use of little babies as cover for bombs. Women are much more ruthless than men will ever be. The real problem is that my generation(old) and less each following generation were taught to take care of women, open doors, hold the umbrella, step in when there was a problem and help. The knight in shinning armor complex if you will. That will be difficult to break because it is (or was) inborn and supported throughout your life as a male. War is not the same as it was during WWI and WWII. No more honour, no more respect for your fellow soldier, everyone for themselves. This will not win wars and introducing women into pitch battles with hand to hand combat will only make it worse. Now that I said that, maybe it would be a good thing after all! The worse we make wars, the less mankind will want to engage in them.

        2. I agree! So many men tried to avoid combat during Vietnam by saying they identified as a female were crazy or that they were homosexual. Today, any able bodied person can serve if they meet the requirements… so keep the Political BS out of the military…I wouldn’t want to serve with someone who was forced to be there…

      3. There are those of us women who are athletic but not masculine and I DO NOT take testosterone! I enjoy showing my feminine girley self as well as being tough as nails when I want/need to. I always maxed my PT tests while serving in Army Reserves but then could dress for the Opera that night! It can be done! Just ask my husband of 39 years!!

    2. Sounds logical to me. in my 20 years active duty, there were women id rather have by my side in wartime then some “men”

      and last think i want is some dude taking hormoien to grow boobs and will play the “i’m a “woke woman” and can’t go.

      This PC nonsense is ridiculous. 😖

      1. The “WOKE WOMAN / MAN would get fragged when the bullets are flying. DRAFT WOMEN so they KNOW they are required to support the military and country. Non Combat roles are fine. At least they can’t sit on their ass screwing the guys next door while hubby is at war. That way they have some skin in the game and have to deal with it like everybody else. They will get knocked up so they can be put out to go home. Look at all the problems the NAVY has with women on ships. This PC CRAP is going to destroy this country. That’s the idea isn’t it!

    3. Military service is open to women who want to serve, as my mom did in WW2 when she joined the Navy Waves. The draft should be men only. Our women folk are part of what real men go to war to protect. Stop sniveling guys and “man up!” Do you really want the girls to do your fighting for you?

    4. Generalizations That is what you presented. And they DON’T hold with the individual. YOU ARE JUST WRONG.

    5. As a female veteran I just want to say that not all women are suitable for the unique demands placed on women of a wartime scenario. Forcing a bunch of women into the military would do more harm to the mission and to the women themselves. Exceptional Women can volunteer if they want to serve, but should not be forced into it. We had enough little girls crying all night during boot camp and they signed up, imagine what fiasco there would be if the government started including women. Besides didn’t we do away with the Draft in favor of a voluntary service contract

  2. Unfortunately, you sometimes dont understand the unintended consequences of getting what you wish for. The womens “movement”, has insisted for years that women are equal to men in every way. So the same should be for the draft. And every parent who fought for the far fetched feminism movement can thank themselves when their little girl goes to combat.

      1. God made us different for a reasons. Men are for the most part are stronger than women. Just look at the problem that we have have that biology men that are living as a woman, beat them every race. I am smart and old enough to know that I am not as strong as a man. I don’t want to either.

  3. If they are TRULY wanting EQUALITY then Women being Drafted is the only step they can take to get equality in the Military.

    1. If they can’t pass the minimum PT tests, they need to be removed for the good of the service. They are there to fight if needed, not to look pretty.

  4. Time for women to step up. They vote left. Join in the fun on the battlefield and we’ll your political thinking shift to the right.

  5. I say yes to drafting women in the military and let them take advantage of the GI bill when they get out.

  6. This whole thing is just more smoke and mirrors to distract everyone from the real issues of the communist take over of our country! We haven’t even used the draft since the Vietnam war and nobody has been keeping females from signing up for military service in the mean time.
    Remember only you can prevent communism in America!

  7. I have a hard time dealing with women in the military. As a Southern gentleman, I see it as a man’s job to defend our country. I would not want to see female body parts blown up in the field.

    1. I’m with ya on that and that was a talking point while i was active duty. Plus some of us grew up to be protective of women. Today i don’t who’s a man or woman or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. it’s just weird.

      Sometimes i think the common sense threshold of the left isn’t higher than 2 on a 1-10 scale 🥺

  8. Ever been in combat? If a women falls the guys run to her aid… not good in combat situations… takes men out of combat… they stop fighting… women in combat is a bad idea for western cultures… women should have a limited role… and if a woman is killed that is one less mother of what could have been many male children who could fight future wars… Hope you get that one…. China understands that one now after eliminating the female children some 30 years ago…Too many males and no women for them… Uggh….all that testosterone and no place for it….

  9. Sorry to see that SCOTUS didn’t take this up! This is something that I have said for years would be a problem created by the “woman’s ERA” movement.

    I don’t think that women should be in combat BUT it IS reverse discrimination against men! Careful what you wish for ladies! Equal pay for EQUAL jobs BUT, as a female, I know there IS a difference between men and women!

  10. So, woman and government want equality in military promotions and benefits but not the draft? Hmmm, what exactly does that say? No need for a law suit, equal treatment means woman must sign up for the draft. Now, that’s not something I ever wanted to see happen, but if you want equal treatment, there’s really no other way! 

  11. All selections should.be based on merit. Physical and mental capabilities to handle tasks related to a job description A 120 lb, 5’2” male or female should not be expected to be a cannon loader or tank mechanic but qualifications to get the job done should not consider sex

  12. Ironic all these #Metoo, and women’s rights groups are awful quiet on this. I’m a woman, what’s wrong chick?, you want to be equal in pay, jobs, hell sex, but your are silent on fighting and giving your lives. Rather ironic and pathetic.

  13. women should NEVER have been allowed into the miitary, the military was NEVER meant to be a social experinment. PERIOD, FULL STOP!

  14. I would much prefer to see all men and women trained in the basics of self-defense and use of arms, something like a minimum two-year enlistment. This would not entitle them to any veteran benefits unless they chose to continue further into the military.

    1. I agree with your strategy Allan. I have felt that any student that graduates from high school or is 18 years old should automatically go into the military for a 2 year period of training. If our country ends up in a war, we will not have time to train everyone that is of age to fight. If ALL 18-year-olds have 2 years of training they will be ready. Not only that they will be getting paid, able to travel, and learn some necessary skills, such as discipline. Most kids that go into college right out of high school do not know what they want to do the rest of their lives and consequently waste their time and money changing career choices, then want their student loans canceled.

  15. If we want to win future wars, we need to either keep traditional physical fitness requirements intact or just go ahead and surrender in advance. This whole feminization push is not a good thing. Women can be still be used in the normal back up support roles, but the real physical l limitations we are witnessing (seeing over 3/4 of them routinely fail minimum physical fitness tests) should tell us all we need to know. Why don’t we consider rounding up all males of normal draft age and reconstitute FDRs Great Depression era and highly successful CCC jobs program, and whip them into fighting shape performing a myriad of countrywide work projects. They are on dope? Ween them off it. Their out of shape? Bring in military drill instructors to mold them into men again. Its just a process. One with a proven track record.

    1. Future wars will not likely much involve archaic combat methods. They will be asymmetrical warfare.

      What do you think is going on with the darkweb hacks of U.S. infrastructure? Why send military off to die in battle when you can just shut a country’s infrastructure down and let them fall into their own chaotic hell?

      And don’t think we’re not testing the same methods in other countries. Even as I type this.

  16. I’m would not be led in combat by a trans gender dude or a transgender woman I was a lrrp in nam and they would be the first in a body bag

  17. I agree the draft should be fair across the board.

    IN FACT, I think there should be a MANDATORY 2 YEAR NATIONAL SERVICE REQUIREMENT for all Citizens.

    As it is, they learn NOTHING ABOUT THE NATION or what makes it work.

    The ‘non combatant Females’ can serve as Medics and rear echelon support that same as the “conscientious Objectors: have done in the past.

    The Draft was ended because TOO MANY BLACKS were coming home from Vietnam with an EDUCATION, JOB SKILLS, A CAREER PATH, and most importantly:

    THEY KNEW from firsthand experience that “it ain’t all whiteys fault after all.”
    They just went to War with all skin colors and they all worked together.

  18. Maybe we should do what Israel does. After High School a two year mandatory military service for all. This could relieve a lot “not knowing what I want to do” plus instill discipline and give direction. In the event we would need soldiers we would have well trained troops already to call on.
    Drafts are discriminatory, based on what your doing at the time. Deferments have been used to keep some from military service in the time of war. Mandatory service would cut out deferment’s for those who have some form of influence that could get them out of serving. Serving would also help everyone to get an earned education for future use, plus their prepared to serve their country.

  19. LISTEN UP…In the OLD TESTAMENT…GOD gave the AGE of 20 YRS OLD for a MAN to go to WAR and AGE 55 to RETIRE and DO LIGHTER WORK DUTIES. WOMEN Have Been FIGHTING in WARS…in SUPPORT ROLES …FLYING HELICOPTERS…PLANES etc THEY are an IMPORTANT PART of the WAR EFFORT. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄

  20. Yes draft for NON-COMBATANT roles only. Standards are lowered and it cost too much to find the very very few females equipped for combat.

  21. Is a draft even within the boundaries of a nation that claims to value personal freedoms above all else”? Isn’t it just forced collectivism?

  22. I was in the last cycle of the Women’s Army Corp before it became coed. I don’t believe in the coed military but if that is what the young women want then they should be drafted.

  23. The main reason why women were not drafted was because when war broke out the women would pick up the jobs that the men had during that time. The women took care of the home, the children and worked to supply that were needed. If women were drafted who is suppose to be in the work force to supply manufactured goods etc.

    1. Remember Rosie the Riveter? Older women can still fill the “At Home” roles. During WWII my mother worked in a gas station, pumping gas, changing tires and oil, washing car windows (most of which are a thing of the past) while my dad was fighting in Germany.

  24. This decision was not made on the basis of factual information which is available, to any and all. Just another thing to keep women in their place, when the fact is that into days military very few of the drafted people go to be as the saying goes to be “cannon fodder.”

  25. Why is this an issue We no longer have a military is a daycare for Misfits Malecontents LMNOPQRS rejects and the rest in the name of equality We are Screwed Yesterday was the 77th anniversary of the D day invasion These misfits could never do it

  26. I know modern day women champion equality….
    SO, I SAY DRAFT EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!!
    WISH THEY WERE LANDING ON THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY 77 YEARS AGO TOO!!!
    I’m sure they will step up to plate in the Middle East and spare a few limbs, an arm here or a maybe both legs there, so that a few more male “counterparts” might come home intact.

  27. So the wimmen who want equal rights with men will get them? They will get them and then clamor bitterly for special treatment because they get knocked up in the barracks or in the field and feel so miserable and need maternity leave. They used to have it so good. What the HELL were they thinking? God made it very clear that women are NOT equal to men. Period. (pun intended!). Full stop.

  28. Anyone who votes to draft women should be summarily executed. And this especially includes any politician. Hundreds of thousands of men have given their lives in America’s past to prevent their women from being subjected to what “involuntary servitude” would certainly bring to American women. Is there ANY father in America who would allow his wife or daughter be dragged off into a military boot camp to be raped and abused, without first killing ANYONE who tried to do it? If the politicians of this country (and I include the US Supremes in this) tried to institute this draft, I predict a wholesale armed rebellion, in which the American military would take the side of the American fathers involved. I can’t think of a better way for all of the politicians in the country to be lined up and shot, than this abomination!

  29. The answer to our snowflake problem is mandatory military service for all. It is fair and does not place unnecessary burden on patriots like those who now are the only ones serving. They would become the professional core of our military, both as officers and NCOs.

  30. Since my time in Vietnam I believe every person must serve this country for at least two years. Either military or community service like feeding the hungry, or picking up trash along the lake. Pick the ages, Say between 18 and 25. Anyone who has been in the military knows it is change their life

  31. I hope they don’t decide to mandatorily institute a women’s draft because I have a 5-year old granddaughter.

  32. No matter how you twist and spin. woman and men are not the same. Women are superior in many ways and far inferior in many more. It is within the mind of MEN to protect women. At least in the mind of REAL MEN. And then, there is the Bible. I will give you what God says if you ask for it.

  33. I AM A WOMAN. SO YOU CAN’T SAY I’M AGAINST WOMEN…. BUT, I WILL SAY THIS MUCH…. THERE IS NO WOMAN THAT I HAVE KNOWN IN MY LIFETIME, WHO I WOULD WANT OR TRUST TO BE LAYING IN A WARZONE FIELD, NEXT TO MY FATHER, BROTHER, HUSBAND OR SON, WHILE BEING SHOT AT BY THE ENEMY…NUMBER ONE REASON, I DON’T BELIEVE THERE IS WOMAN WHO COULD CARRY ANY OF THEM , EVEN FOR A FEW YARDS, TO HELP THEM GET TO SAFETY OR TO A HELICOPTER WAITING TO SAVE THEM. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH “IF” THEY CAN OR CAN’T, IT HAS “EVERYTHING” TO WITH “COMMON SENSE”…. WHO WOULD BE THE ONE MOST LIKELY TO BE ABLE TO SAVE MY FAMILY MEMBER. I AM NOT AGAINST WOMEN DOING A “JOB” THAT THEY CAN DO A 100%. THEY CAN BE A “PILOT” AND FLY A PLANE, THEY CAN BE A “NURSE” AND HELP SAVE OUR FAMILY OR DO THE PAPER WORK OR WHATEVER……BUT, I AM TOTALLY “AGAINST” WOMEN IN THE “WARZONE”…..SORRY, IT’S NOT A GOOD IDEA AND I DON’T CARE IF THERE ARE A “HANDFUL” THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO IT……I BELIEVE THERE ARE “JOBS” THAT ARE BETTER DONE BY MEN… AND THERE ARE “JOBS” BETTER DONE BY WOMEN……BOTH SEXES DON’T HAVE TO BE “EQUAL” IN JOBS. IT SHOULD BE “WHO” CAN DO THE “BEST” JOB OR “WHO” WOULD BETTER “SAVE” OUR FAMILY MEMBER… I’M TIRED OF HEARING THERE SHOULD BE A “MAN, A WOMAN, A BLACK, A WHITE, AN ASIAN, A MEXICAN, AN INDIAN, A GAY OR EVEN A RIDICULOUS TRANSGENDER (WHICH DOESN’T EXIST IN HUMANITY) NEEDS TO BE A PART OF ANY JOB……IT IS “WHO” CAN DO IT BEST, PERIOD!! AS WE LEARNED FAST, WHEN AMERICANS WANTED TO “PROVE” TO THE WORLD THAT THEY WEREN’T “RACIST” AND PUT THAT “TREASONOUS OBAMA” INTO OUR WH….AND ALLOWED HIM TO START THE BEGINNING OF BRINGING OUR BELOVED AMERICA DOWN.. HE’S STILL IGNORANT, STILL BLACK AND THINKS HE STILL HAS CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY…… HE WAS AND STILL IS A ” COMPLETE AMERICA HATING CREEP”. SO , STOP THINKING “WOMEN’S RIGHTS, BLACK’S RIGHTS, MEN’S RIGHTS OR WHATEVER
    “RIGHTS” YOU HAVE IN MIND AND START “THINKING, WHO CAN DO THE BEST AND SAFEST JOB” FOR OUR BELOVED AMERICA…. GOD BLESS US ALL EVERYONE.

  34. Well, women have been bit**ing and moaning about equal rights in the military, wanting to be allowed in combat positions and flying planes, which most of them have done very well. However, remember the young army servicewoman who got captured? I don’t think she would have been able to survive if she had been tortured. But, hey, trans people can now serve, so if a woman wants to be a man, then she should be able to be drafted.

  35. It would cause more deaths for men tring to protect women as is done in the Police force if you ever watch what happens during an uprising. I have and the women stay back behind a man going through doors. And I saw it in combat.

  36. I think this is a great idea! I have always been impressed with Israel’s mandatory 2 years for all males and females. It would build some character in these privileged little snowflakes. I served 11 years in our Army Reserves as an OR nurse and felt honored to do so. MAGA!🇺🇲

  37. Men will and should fight the wars, there are women that are very masculine but there are to left at home.

  38. This goes back to WWII and Vietnam, both of which drafted able bodied men to go die in the hundreds of thousands, while hippies and women were left behind to vote democrat.

    do the math. we should be asking for political restitution for this obvious political cleansing tactic.

  39. Women should be required to register for the draft for non-combat duties. They want equality then they should get it. If society says there is no difference between men and women then you can’t have exceptions.

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