 President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday he's writing a historic wrong to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits.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. The law, which has been in the books since 1951, was rewritten in 2013 to prohibit only forcible acts.