Posted on 05/10/2010 9:36:28 AM PDT by DesertRenegade
Speculation continues to swirl about the sexual preference of likely Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. She is apparently out to her friends and others in her academic and social circles, but not out to the public at large.
The White House has flatly stated that she is not gay, which could prove a tad embarrassing if the open secret of her lesbianism is confirmed at some point. If she's a lesbian, it is going to become public knowledge, and the White House will simply have some more egg on its already yoke-splattered face.
Elena Kagan, if nominated today, will be forced to face the press. She cannot be kept closeted not only from the public but from the inquiring minds of the media. They have a solemn responsibility to do one thing: ask her directly and openly and in front of the American people: Are you a lesbian?
A refusal to answer is a tacit admission of guilt. But she may not be able publicly to deny she's a lesbian, likely because it's true. She may not be able to admit it either, because it could cost her a Supreme Court post. So she's likely to refuse to answer the question at all, and the only plausible explanation for her evasion would be because rumors of her lesbianism aren't rumors at all but based in fact.
Think about it for a minute. If you were falsely accused of engaging in sexually aberrant behavior, would you waste a single minute challenging such a scurrilous rumor?
Even lesbian websites are agreeing with me about the importance of Ms. Kagan declaring herself on this matter. For instance, from LezGetReal, "A Gay Girl's View on The World:"
"If she is not a lesbian, she needs to come out and say it, and put to rest the rumours and concerns. If she is gay, I believe she needs to say that too, and quickly. While being gay is not a shameful thing, being chased out of the closet can certainly make a person appear weak and lacking in integrity."
I expect the White House is in full lockdown mode this morning, trying to figure out how to finesse the subject of her sexual preference, exploring all the possible scenarios - including the one that they told a flat-out lie when they said she was straight - and counting on a morally benumbed America to give them a pass on an important moral question.
One qualification for public office is personal character, and nothing speaks to character more than the choices one makes when it comes to sexual conduct. Bill Clinton convinced an entire generation of America's youth that oral sex isn't really sex, and as a result we've seen an explosion among millenials in cancers of the throat and head caused by the HPV virus, which is spread through oral-genital contact.
It's time we got over the myth that what a public servant does in his private life is of no consequence. We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility, especially when that individual could become one of nine votes in an out of control oligarchy that constantly usurps constitutional prerogatives to unethically and illegally legislate for 300 million Americans.
The stakes are too high. Social conservatives must rise up as one and say no lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Will they?
Oh, puhleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze...
Don’t forget that as dean of Harvard’s law school she banned military recruiters because she considered the “don’t ask, don’t tell policy” bigoted.
If she’s so opposed to “don’t ask don’t tell” she needs to prove it.
being homosexual is not shameful?
who wrote that?!
She does need to openly proclaim her status as a fornicator. After all, isn’t she “proud” of her fornication?
Is there really a question here? As a liberal, I would expect that it would have an impact on her judgment, but then again I would oppose all liberals to the Supreme Court, whether she was a lesbian or not.
Ha!
In this Senate, it will be a big plus.
The stakes are too high. Social conservatives must rise up as one and say no lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Will they?
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Of course they will. Trouble is, there are very few SoCons in DC.
I’m waiting for the RINO’s to join the dems and gush all over her and then confirm her without delay.
LSD is also illegal...
she forbid the military from recruiting at harvard law because of her personal view that homosexuals should be allowed to use the military as a dating service.
The supreme court struck down her ban 9 to zero.
where does she stand on homosexual based marriage?
homosexuals taking children?
Does a child have one mother and one father or just “two whatever”?
Obama would probably love to take credit for appointing the first openly homosexual member of the Supreme Court, and figure on her getting confirmed because the Republican senators would be afraid of being accused of bigotry...but his big theme for the 2010 elections is going to be “Republicans are racists” rather than “Republicans are anti-gay.”
She wants to get on the Supreme Court lickety-split.
She also needs to be told that, regardless of her sexual orientation, if confirmed, it’s the Constitution that she must consider. Not her sexual desires. This needs to be stated in the hearings and if she violates this, impeachment proceedings should take place and she needs to be told this in public.
She is a idiot. Don’t ask, don’t tell was to protect her gay friends in the military.
She certainly looks like a muff diver to me, but just as bad, she’s a part of zero’s gang of misfits.
I have no problem with a closeted gay. Sexual preferences should be a private matter. It’s the openly gay person who is an activist - and any activist on the Supreme Court is a danger to the Constitution.
Why should she care about the Constitution? For the last 75 years liberals haven’t. Ever since the Supreme Court had the temerity to declare some of the New Deal legislation unconstitutional, getting their agenda through has trumped everything else.
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