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

Contents:

• WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?
• BEYOND THE GAY DEBATE: ELENA KAGAN AND WHAT WE STILL DON’T GET ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE SGLE
• SUPREME COURT JTICE ELENA KAGAN PERFORMS FIRST GAY WEDDG
• KAGAN AND THE 'GAY QUTN' CONTROVERSY
• DO IT MATTER IF ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE THK ELENA KAGAN IS GAY?

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.

BEYOND THE GAY DEBATE: ELENA KAGAN AND WHAT WE STILL DON’T GET ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE SGLE

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.

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.

SUPREME COURT JTICE ELENA KAGAN PERFORMS FIRST GAY WEDDG

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. 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.

KAGAN AND THE 'GAY QUTN' CONTROVERSY

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.

DO IT MATTER IF ELENA KAGAN IS 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? ” 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. 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.