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.
Contents:
- WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
- KAGAN AND THE 'GAY QUTN' CONTROVERSY
- WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- SUPREME COURT JTICE ELENA KAGAN PERFORMS FIRST GAY WEDDG
- A “KAGAN DOCTRE” ON GAY MARRIAGE
- ELENA KAGAN OFFICIAT GAY WEDDG AS URT MULLS MARRIAGE EQUALY
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
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 kagan gay *
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 Court. 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 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. 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. That sounds pretty gay, bee gay people n't get married. (Then aga she's been livg Massachetts for the last several years and gay marriage is legal there.
KAGAN AND THE 'GAY QUTN' CONTROVERSY
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) 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. If the admistratn me out and clared that she's not gay, she might not be.
WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
Elena Kagan uttered neher the word “gay” nor “marriage” her openg statement at the Senate nfirmatn heargs on her nomatn to the Supreme Court, but she addrsed the issue nohels, wr Jonathan Rch. * elena kagan gay *
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.
SUPREME COURT JTICE ELENA KAGAN PERFORMS FIRST GAY WEDDG
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 kagan 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. Gordon Jam Klgenschmt, a urt-martialed ary chapla who now ns an anti-gay webse, circulated a prs release cg anonymo stunt reviews on Epns as proof that Kagan is gay.
Peter LaBarbera at Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy blasted out a prs release llg on Kagan to answer the qutn: “Are (or were) you a practicg homosexual?
A “KAGAN DOCTRE” ON GAY MARRIAGE
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” He wrote, “ an era of ubiquo pro-gay msag and pop culture celebratn of homosexualy, ’s ridiculo that Amerins should be left gusg as to whether a Supreme Court nomee has a special, personal tert homosexualy. Given the important homosexual-related issu g before the Supreme Court, Kagan should say so if she has a personal tert lbianism.
ELENA KAGAN OFFICIAT GAY WEDDG AS URT MULLS MARRIAGE EQUALY
But wasn’t jt homophobic right-wgers llg on Kagan to addrs her sexual orientatn directly. Sullivan, who’s openly gay, wrote, “Is Obama actually gog to e a Supreme Court nomee to advance the e of the closet (as well as kill any urt imposn of marriage equaly)?
Bis, if Obama really wanted to make a statement and nomate a gay or lbian Supreme Court jtice, wouldn’t he have done so openly?