Why Do So Many People Thk Elena Kagan Is Gay? – Mother Jon

Contents:

• WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
• THEATER REVIEW; GAY2K, JA RENO'S HAIR AND OVERZEALO PARENTS
• JUDGE ORRS U.S. TO RETURN GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER PORTED TO CHAD

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?

This morng, Josh Gerste of Poli reported that two of the top ndidat for the SCOTUS seat, Stanford Law School’s Pamela Karlan and Kathleen Sullivan, are gay. You’d thk this would have cleared the air for the first ee and unfettered discsn of an openly gay jtice.

On hearg the news about Karlan, Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council said he doubts Print Obama will nomate a gay person to the Supreme Court, bee of the possibily of a polil battle: “That would enter a whole new element of the bate that I don’t thk he’s ready for, ” Perks said. Thk of all the sgle, childls women posns of promence who have been “mored to be gay. The very much married Hillary Clton is practilly the only one who n proudly, sually say that she march Gay Pri paras, although mors that she was a lbian have dogged her, too, for s.

Sometim the for gay gets sloppy and transparent. ” Although she has taken pas to wele nservativ onto mp, Kagan is targeted by the right for beg “gay iendly” bee she took sis a Supreme Court se which several law schools objected to the ary’s policy on gay servicemen and servicewomen. Ja Napolano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Secury and another short-lister, has many tim answered qutns om Rh Limbgh and reporters about whether she is gay.

THEATER REVIEW; GAY2K, JA RENO'S HAIR AND OVERZEALO PARENTS

That we n’t speak openly about whether some of the women who have earned nsiratn for the Supreme Court are gay or not, and whether even matters, is, of urse, madng. Maybe Tony Perks is right, and Obama is “not ready” to nomate a gay person. The first gay print?

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? ” 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.

JUDGE ORRS U.S. TO RETURN GAY ASYLUM-SEEKER PORTED TO CHAD

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? Buried the many bat over whether ’s even appropriate to nsir someone’s sexual orientatn as part of the nfirmatn procs is the unspoken acknowledgement that Kagan mt, after all, be gay.

Overall, the se for her gayns seems to rt on a pretty th argument that go somethg like this:. And while Sullivan might thk that sexual orientatn has bee as bland a bgraphil tail as Jewishns, the unfortunate tth is that, unlike him, most of those suggtg Kagan has somethg to hi aren’t rootg for her to e out so she n advance the e of gay rights. UPDATE: Kagan’s iends tell Poli that she is not gay.