Sonia Sotomayor Pens Wherg Dissent Gay Discrimatn Case

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• IS SONIA SOTOMAYOR GAY?BY MICHAEL WOLFFMAY 29, 2009SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWELL THERE, I ASKED THE QUTN. IT MIGHT AS WELL BE ASKED. IT IS BEG ASKED. IT'S THE QUTN MARK ABOUT EVERY SGLE PUBLIC PERSON WHOUT A SPOE OR CHILDREN OR A BIG TIME SOCIAL LIFE.THIS IS PARTLY FOR A VERY GOOD REASON: A GREAT NUMBER OF PUBLIC PEOPLE ARE GAY. A GREAT NUMBER OF PUBLIC PEOPLE ARE OBVLY GAY AND FOR SO LONG WE'VE BEEN PLIC PRETENDG THAT THEY'RE NOT. AND, ED, MAY NOT MATTER THAT THEY ARE. EXCEPT FOR THE DARK AND DISMAL AIR OF DISHONTY AND SUBTERFUGE—WHICH, OF URSE, POLICS IS BS AS UAL, GAY OR NOT.I HAVE NO IA WHAT SONIA SOTOMAYOR'S SEXUAL TAST MIGHT BE—IF ANY. (THOUGH ASEXUAL, ONCE AN ACCEPTABLE STAT, IS NOW PRETTY MUCH UNRSTOOD TO BE A VER.) THE EVINCE IS WISH-WASHY. NO CHILDREN. VAGUENS ABOUT AN EARLY MARRIAGE. A LOT OF PICTUR WH NIEC AND NEPHEWS—A STANDARD VER. Y, APPARENTLY, A PRENT RELATNSHIP. BUT THEN THERE'S YOU-KNOW-WHO CHIGO, WH HER UNNVCG RT. WE HAVE BEE VERY SAVVY AND SOPHISTITED AND DOUBTFUL ABOUT THIS STUFF.BUT SHOULD WE KNOW?CONTINUE READING AT »MICHAEL WOLFF
• WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?
• IS SONIA SOTOMAYOR GAY?
• WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
• SONIA SOTOMAYOR QUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE LEAV LAWYER STUMPED (VIDEO)
• SONIA SOTOMAYOR PENS WHERG DISSENT GAY DISCRIMATN CASE
• SOTOMAYOR PEPPERED ON ABORTN,|GAY MARRIAGE AND GUN CONTROL

IS SONIA SOTOMAYOR GAY?BY MICHAEL WOLFFMAY 29, 2009SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWELL THERE, I ASKED THE QUTN. IT MIGHT AS WELL BE ASKED. IT IS BEG ASKED. IT'S THE QUTN MARK ABOUT EVERY SGLE PUBLIC PERSON WHOUT A SPOE OR CHILDREN OR A BIG TIME SOCIAL LIFE.THIS IS PARTLY FOR A VERY GOOD REASON: A GREAT NUMBER OF PUBLIC PEOPLE ARE GAY. A GREAT NUMBER OF PUBLIC PEOPLE ARE OBVLY GAY AND FOR SO LONG WE'VE BEEN PLIC PRETENDG THAT THEY'RE NOT. AND, ED, MAY NOT MATTER THAT THEY ARE. EXCEPT FOR THE DARK AND DISMAL AIR OF DISHONTY AND SUBTERFUGE—WHICH, OF URSE, POLICS IS BS AS UAL, GAY OR NOT.I HAVE NO IA WHAT SONIA SOTOMAYOR'S SEXUAL TAST MIGHT BE—IF ANY. (THOUGH ASEXUAL, ONCE AN ACCEPTABLE STAT, IS NOW PRETTY MUCH UNRSTOOD TO BE A VER.) THE EVINCE IS WISH-WASHY. NO CHILDREN. VAGUENS ABOUT AN EARLY MARRIAGE. A LOT OF PICTUR WH NIEC AND NEPHEWS—A STANDARD VER. Y, APPARENTLY, A PRENT RELATNSHIP. BUT THEN THERE'S YOU-KNOW-WHO CHIGO, WH HER UNNVCG RT. WE HAVE BEE VERY SAVVY AND SOPHISTITED AND DOUBTFUL ABOUT THIS STUFF.BUT SHOULD WE KNOW?CONTINUE READING AT »MICHAEL WOLFF

It's the qutn mark about every sgle public person whout a spoe or children or a big time social is partly for a very good reason: A great number of public people are gay.

WHO’S THE GAYT SUPREME COURT JTICE?

A great number of public people are obvly gay and for so long we've been plic pretendg that they're not. Except for the dark and dismal air of dishonty and subterfuge—which, of urse, polics is bs as ual, gay or not. If thgs go a certa way at the Supreme Court this sprg, gay marriage will be legal every state by the time the June pri paras roll Pulls a CharlottvilleHow will the Jtic vote?

But based on their past lgs, some of them are totally gayer than we ranked them—roughly—by the gay-iendls of their past cisns or public statements pl their Mart Qun sre, a project by two profsors that tracks judg’ ORDER OF TOTALLY GAY TO NOT SO GAY1. Then a week later she married a send gay uple. Jtice Sonia SotomayorWhen asked about gay marriage durg her nfirmatn hearg, Jtice Sotomayor said she unrstands “the serns of same-sex marriage” and she would keep a "pletely open md.

8” se dited that she is cril of barrg gay and lbian upl om marryg. Jtice Anthony KennedyJtice Kennedy thored the opn the se that stck down Texas’s ban on sodomy, but nobody knows how he’ll vote when to gay marriage for the entire untry.

IS SONIA SOTOMAYOR GAY?

Evans that stck down Colorado’s nstutnal amendment forbiddg lol gay rights legislatn. ”Sounds totally gay, but Kennedy should still be nsired qutng—he’s also led favor of allowg stat to terme their own laws, separate om feral fluence.

Roberts noted that “whout some more nvcg evince that the Act’s prcipal purpose was to dify malice, and that furthered no legimate ernment terts, ” he would have to vote to uphold the SO GAY: the three arch-nservativ7. Jtice Anton SliaJtice Slia has argued elected officials should ci on gay marriage, not the urts.

WHAT EACH SUPREME COURT JTICE HAS SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

He’s the third most nservative jtice acrdg to the Mart Qun has provid a glimmer of hope support of gay marriage, as has poted out.

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?

Jtice Clarence ThomasJtice Clarence Thomas has fely not officiated any gay weddgs.

SONIA SOTOMAYOR QUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE LEAV LAWYER STUMPED (VIDEO)

Thomas also joed his fellow nservativ lleagu votg that the urt shouldn’t le on gay don’t unt on Thomas to le favor of allowg same-sex upl to get married.

SONIA SOTOMAYOR PENS WHERG DISSENT GAY DISCRIMATN CASE

And as sure as they have existed, others have sought to ny their existence, and to exclu them om public life, " she wrote, addg that "state-sponsored discrimatn" was historilly ma possible by police raids on bs that acmodated gay ctomers. 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. ) 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.

SOTOMAYOR PEPPERED ON ABORTN,|GAY MARRIAGE AND GUN CONTROL

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.