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Contents:
- ELENA KAGAN OFFICIAT GAY WEDDG AS URT MULLS MARRIAGE EQUALY
- KAGAN AND THE 'GAY QUTN' CONTROVERSY
- WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
- SUPREME COURT JTICE ELENA KAGAN PERFORMS FIRST GAY WEDDG
- BEYOND THE GAY DEBATE: ELENA KAGAN AND WHAT WE STILL DON’T GET ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE SGLE
- ELENA KAGAN IS NOT GAYELENA KAGAN IS NOT GAY
- A “KAGAN DOCTRE” ON GAY MARRIAGE
ELENA KAGAN OFFICIAT GAY WEDDG AS URT MULLS MARRIAGE EQUALY
Contact: Chapla Klgenschmt, The Pray In J Name Project, 719-360-5132, WASHINGTON, May 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- As far back as 2006 and 2007, four different Harvard Law Stunts nfirmed that Supreme Court nomee Elena Kagan was a Lbian. Why is the Obama Admistratn now sudnly ashamed of Kagan's homosexual orientatn? CBS News first reported that Print Obama's new Supreme Court nomee Elena Kagan will be the "first openly gay jtic * elena kegan gay *
CBS News first reported that Print Obama's new Supreme Court nomee Elena Kagan will be the "first openly gay jtice, " pleasg much of Obama's liberal base. " CBS later pulled the report entirely, after The Washgton Post cricized CBS policy, sayg "most major news anizatns have polici agast 'outg' gays or reportg on the sex liv of public officials unls they are related to their public duti.
In breakg news, Chapla Klgenschmt reveals that four different Harvard Law School stunts reported Kagan was Lbian Homosexual as far back as 2006 and 2007.
(Then aga she's been livg Massachetts for the last several years and gay marriage is legal there.
KAGAN AND THE 'GAY QUTN' CONTROVERSY
We’ve had plenty of unnamed sourc sistg on the heterosexualy of Solicor General and Supreme Court nomee Elena Kagan. The most notable was the anonymo admistratn official who told the Washgton Post that Kagan isn’t gay, rponse to an onle lumn by nservative blogger Ben Domenech claimg otherwise. But there have been other such sourc. I prevly mentned one, a Clton Admistratn official volved vettg Kagan when she was nomated to the D.C. Circu, who sisted to me that she’s straight. Marc Ambr of The Atlantic ced “[p]eople who know Kagan very well” reportg that she’s not gay. Now we have an intified dividual gog on the rerd to say that the Dive Miss K enjoys the big D. From Poli: Elena Kagan is not a lbian, one of her bt iends told POLITICO Tuday night, rpondg to persistent mors and nuendo about the Supreme Court nomee’s personal life. “I’ve known her for most of her adult life and I know she’s straight,” said Sarah Walzer, Kagan’s roommate law school and a close iend sce then. “She dated men when we were law school, we talked about men — who our class was cute, who she would like to date, all of those thgs. She fely dated when she was D.C. after law school, when she was Chigo – and she jt didn’t fd the right person.” A nial that the likely 112th jtice of the Supreme Court is a votee of Sappho? This is jt… so… ridiculo. But fun! God bls Ameri. And there’s more…. One mor that has ma the rounds is that Kagan once lived together, wh a woman, the Cambridge area. The mor might be lerally te — even if the woman qutn, Sarah Walzer, was Kagan’s law school roommate. Her straight law school roommate, who is now married (to a man — another former roommate, tertgly enough). The Poli piece, by Ben Smh, scrib Walzer and Kagan’s life together at HLS: Walzer relled sharg a spac, moe-fted send floor apartment wh Kagan Somerville, Mass., the cy adjog Cambridge, the early 1980s, when Kagan was a stunt at Harvard Law School. The send-floor of a triple-cker, the hoe had a large dg room where they hosted equent dner parti – Walzer did the okg – for iends who lived dormori or smaller apartments. “There fely were strategic v,” Wazler relled. “She’d say, ‘This is somebody I’m terted ’ and I’d say ‘I’ll make sure he’s one of the people we ve.’” This is somebody I’m terted … bee he might be able to appot me to the feral bench someday? [T]he two lived the life of sgle, straight young women, wh a b of a Harvard Law twist. Walzer relled “discsn about who she might be terted – the ual girl talk stuff– talk about how to get his attentn.” Solicor General Kagan, I refer you to the wise unsel of your fellow HLS alumna, Elle Woods: “Bend, and snap!’ So, will Walzer’s statement stop the speculatn? Not clear. Profsg heterosexualy llege or law school (or beyond) don’t make you straight for life; tst me on this. And a female iend / ex-roommate isn’t a firsthand source on Kagan’s sexualy. Walzer and Kagan were roommat at Harvard Law School, not Smh College. It would be nice if we uld fd someone who has been unrneath her robe — or pantsu, sce she’s not (yet) a judge — and who uld say of Kagan: “I me, I saw, I nquered.” (Or maybe “I saw, I nquered, I me.”) Can we get on-the-rerd ment om an ex-boyiend, preferably one wh the statute of limatns — say, the past six years? That ex-boyiend will not be former New York Governor Elt Spzer. From Poli: Another iend, former New York Governor Elt Spzer, a member of Kagan’s social circle at Prceton Universy, wanted to make the same pot as Walzer. “I did not go out wh her, but other guys did.” Well, Elt, maybe you should have. She wouldn’t have charged you $5,000 an hour. But we hear she lik her men to take their socks off. Elena Kagan’s iends: She’s not gay [Poli] Earlier: Did Bill Clton Jt Jo Team Kagan? And what team do Elena Kagan play for? * elena kegan gay *
) Still, that's all many people need for a swift nvictn on charg of 's opposed to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Long a thorn the si of the gay civil rights movement, Kagan is stnchly agast the policy that has kept gay soldiers om servg openly. Sorry, but, like softball, mayor of Gaytown has endorsed her: Andrew Sullivan, who is the rglear of the "gays to polics, " says that she is part of his gay club. If anyone knows the tth, 's Gay Uncle 's never nied the mors: The Kagan lbian mors aren't new, but she's never ma a public statement nyg them.
Here's the basic le on gay mors: If someone don't ny them or won't talk about them, then they are digs lbian judg: When Obama was lookg at replacements for Jtice Souter last year, two lbians were serly nsired for the slot that eventually went to Sonia Sotomayor. This has no bearg on Kagan specifilly, but shows the admistratn isn't pletely petrified of nomatg someone of the Sapphic gay tablishment is spicly quiet: Sure, Andrew Sullivan has said she's gay (as have several gay blogs), but much of the gay media has been mum about Kagan's sexualy. It's entirely News reported : When Kagan's name was first floated last month, CBS News published a post by Republin blogger Ben Domenech llg her the "first openly gay jtice.
Even worse than tryg to sneak a lbian Supreme Court jtice past the untry's vilently homophobic right wg would be gettg ught lyg about 's agast same-sex marriage: Before her nfirmatn as Solicor General, the Judiciary Commtee gave her a list of qutns to answer, cludg one about same-sex marriage. " The days, any homosexual who wants to hang out wh other homosexuals n't be agast same-sex marriage. Even more damng is her answer to a qutn askg if she has ever exprsed an opn about the nstutn ntag a right to gay marriage.
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
When Elena Kagan go before the Senate Judiciary Commtee this summer, she'll be asked dozens of qutns by probg Senators. What she almost certaly won't be asked are qutns about her sexualy. But that hasn't stopped a mixed st of gay and nservative bloggers om dog stead, sparkg a boistero bate about a nomee's personal life never seen before. * elena kegan gay *
If she were actually gay, she mt have exprsed this opn, even cktail nversatn wh the ladi durg a weekend P-Town.
Verdict: Between the hair, the softball, the "open secret" at Harvard, the purported partner, and the Andrew Sullivan outg, I'm gog to go ahead and gus she's gay. The most notable was the anonymo admistratn official who told the Washgton Post that Kagan isn’t gay, rponse to an onle lumn by nservative blogger Ben Domenech claimg otherwise. Marc Ambr of The Atlantic ced “[p]eople who know Kagan very well” reportg that she’s not gay.
" Which is a relief bee that really would have plited rather distractg bate about Elena Kagan's sexualy reached fever pch this week, thanks to a powerfully argued seri of posts by gay blogger Andrew Sullivan, who sisted that Kagan's sexual orientatn should be a matter of public rerd if she is gog to be nfirmed as a Supreme Court judge. "Let's get one thg clear: should not be an "accatn" to ask if someone is gay, nor a "slimy" attack. And the kds of tails should not be required, not unls all the other judg on the urt are gog to be treated the same way (and, ankly, that rmatn might be a ltle stomach-turng) the many people who have addrsed the topic are lyg and Kagan has hidn her supposed homosexualy not jt om Print Obama but her bt iends as well, the se should be closed.
SUPREME COURT JTICE ELENA KAGAN PERFORMS FIRST GAY WEDDG
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When former Whe Hoe munitns director Ana Dunn chimed to nmn the CBS blogger who suggted Kagan was gay, she said he was simply "applyg old stereotyp to sgle women wh succsful reers.
Elenis (the se which a webse signer sought to ny service to gay upl) for exemptg the signer om civil rights law, which the urt had cled to do 2018’s siar Masterpiece Cakhop se. Retired Jtice Sandra Day O’Connor and Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg have prevly officiated at the weddg of gay and lbian upl, cludg at the supreme urt.
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) civil rights anizatn, today appld the Uned Stat Senate for nfirmg Solicor General Elena Kagan as an Associate Jtice of the Uned Stat Supreme Court. The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri's largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. But that hasn't stopped a mixed st of gay and nservative bloggers om dog stead, sparkg a boistero bate about a nomee's personal life never seen evince has proven that Kagan herself is gay, which both her llege iends and admistratn supporters have flatly nied.
BEYOND THE GAY DEBATE: ELENA KAGAN AND WHAT WE STILL DON’T GET ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE SGLE
I wish a print would fally get the gumptn to nomate an uncloseted gay or lbian to the Supreme Court. * elena kegan gay *
Before the nomatn, Whe Hoe nsultant Ana Dunn said assertns by a nservative blogger for CBS News that Kagan is gay amounted to "people postg li, " while Whe Hoe spokman Ben LaBolt lled them "false charg. "Still, the hours after Obama named his send high-urt nomee, thoands of Inter ers took to Google searchg for reports or evince that Kagan is gay, and others joed the speculatn on chat rooms and msage Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, an openly gay and nservative blogger, was among the first to promently pose the qutn about Kagan after her nomatn.
In Sullivan's world, however, Kagan should answer to the meras and addrs the mors herself, regardls of how they were started, puttg them to rt once and for for much of the polil world, cludg many Republin circl, and the broar gay muny, the eply personal qutns of Kagan are not only misplaced but cross a le. "It's not appropriate to ask unls there's a reason to do so, and the only reason to do so would be if reflects on a person's character or if somebody, a legislator, tak a nsistently hostile posn towards gays and lbians and is known to be a closeted gay. "Ined, the nsens among gay rights groups is that merely raisg the qutn -– whout any substantiated reason to -– feeds stereotyp and prejudic about what means to be gay.
" said Kolbe, who me out as a gay man while servg Congrs and ntued his seat for 10 more very profferg of Kagan mors through the so-lled whisper l may also be attempts to smear the Democratic nomee and rally a homophobic base.
ELENA KAGAN IS NOT GAYELENA KAGAN IS NOT GAY
"This is straight out of the right-wg playbook, " said Michael Cole of the Human Rights Campaign, the natn's largt gay-rights group. " Kagan Statements on Gay Issu Draw Spotlight Mike Rogers of, which vtigat claims of allegedly closeted gay members of Congrs, said, "The only reason they're askg is bee they're homophobic.
"Some nservativ ntend Kagan's public statements on gay issu, particularly her outspoken opposn to the ary's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, raise the relevance of the quiry to her personal an of Harvard Law School 2005, Kagan lled the ary's ban on gays and lbians servg openly a "profound wrong" and "moral jtice of the first orr. Whatever the motivatn behd the buzz, 's likely the qutns and speculatn about Kagan and possibly future nome will ntue until the ice is broken and novelty dispelled wh a first openly gay nomee.
A “KAGAN DOCTRE” ON GAY MARRIAGE
But as much as race or abortn have domated past Supreme Court nfirmatn heargs, gay rights are likely to play a more central role the upg fight over Elena Kagan than they have for any prev nomee.
Already, nservativ are tryg to pat Kagan as a guaranteed liberal vote for issu like gay marriage. Yet on the left, the rponse to Kagan has been spl — those who are skeptil of Kagan’s support for gay rights issu and those who are glad to have a nomee they believe will si their favor down the le.