Whether or not Elena Kagan is a lbian shouldn't distract om a simple fact: Ameri isn't ready for an openly gay Supreme Court judge.
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‘SO IS SHE GAY?’
Paired up wh the giant killer himself, the master of executn and my #1 homoerotic wrtler – non-pornboy, Lon, and I’d be heaven, rather than the temporary hell which I currently fd myself. I left a letter unr my mother’s pillow, gave her a kiss goodbye and then embarked on my first tour ever … Ever sce, my time has been swept up by life on the road performg wh my band as an openly gay ont woman. The mor about Kagan has circulated for months on gay blogs and beme a matter of ntroversy when was ced as fact by a nservative blogger on the webse of CBS News, drawg a sharp Whe Hoe rebuttal.
It has, sce, been a source of particular fascatn some socially nservative circl and particularly among gay and lbian polil observers, some of whom objected volubly Tuday to a Wall Street Journal ver image of Kagan playg softball, which they perceived as a jab at a stereotype of lbians. The rult has been an awkward dilemma for the tradnal media, for whom reportg about homosexualy has always been nsired to be off lims. Reporters and bloggers have bated, publicly and privately, the propriety of askg whether Kagan is gay.
The tense scty that wh a Supreme Court nomatn leav ample space for cursy – particularly tense the gay muny— on a qutn that even leadg Republin Senators have dismissed as irrelevant to the job. But Kagan’s iends’ sire to “out” her as straight has been plited by their hope to avoid offendg gay iends by implyg that there would be any problem if she were a lbian. The mors that Kagan is gay, Walzer said, were current before she beme a public figure, and a source of tratn to Kagan and her iends – who were trated by their persistence, but worried that nyg them uld imply some anti-gay prejudice.