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President Joe Biden has pardoned what could be thousands of veterans who were convicted under a military law that banned consensual gay sex, saying that he is using his clemency authority to right “a historic wrong.”
Service members endured more than 60 years of this law, which was put in place in 1951 under the Uniform Code of Military Justice in Article 125 criminalized sodomy, including between consenting adults.
The law has since been rewritten in 2013 after it repealed the part of the code that criminalized consensual acts and now only prohibits forcible acts.
More than 10 years since the law change, Biden has pardoned veteranswho were convicted by this law, who will be able to apply to receive proof that their conviction has …
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