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‘Righting a historic wrong,’ Biden will pardon U.S. veterans convicted of having gay sex

The pardon applies to service members who were convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s former Article 125, which criminalized sodomy. President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits.Biden’s action grants a pardon to service members who were convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s former Article 125, which criminalized sodomy.

 

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