Military officials have now asked Congress to drop the anti-sodomy language from the UCMJ. But that article of the military code doesn’t just include humans, and that’s where the confusion begins.
Article 125 actually states that any servicemember who “engages in unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same sex or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy.” Offenders face court-martial for any violations.

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING, the military does not plan to legalize bestiality. No, this is not a joke – it’s the latest surprise controversy stemming from an effort to update the UCMJ in the defense authorization bill to remove anti-sodomy provisions declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court years ago. The update also removes any reference to bestiality in the UCMJ, which led PETA and some conservative groups to worry that the military plans to decriminalize the practice. Leo Shane III of Stars and Stripes has the story here: http://1.usa.gov/rMthb4