Posted on 05/11/2010 6:36:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kagan Called ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ A ‘Moral Injustice of the First Order’ Tuesday, May 11, 2010 By Matt Cover, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – Solicitor General Elena Kagan, nominated by President Obama to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, has called the military’s ban on homosexuals “a profound wrong” and “a moral injustice of the first order.”
Kagan made the comments while serving as dean of Harvard Law School during the 2005 controversy over whether Congress could withhold federal funding from universities that discriminate against the military. Kagan joined a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the government.
“I abhor the military’s discriminatory recruitment policy,” Kagan wrote in an email to Harvard Law students on October 6, 2003. “This [policy] is a profound wrong – a moral injustice of the first order. And it is a wrong that tears at the fabric of our own community, because some of our members cannot, while others can, devote their professional careers to their country.”
The “discriminatory” policy Kagan opposes is a federal law, passed in 1993, that directs Congress to use its constitutional authority “to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces” to prohibit homosexuals from serving in the military.
Schools such as Harvard traditionally have used their non-discrimination policies to keep military recruiters off their campuses or, in the case of Harvard Law, to deny them the same official assistance given to other non-military recruiters.
In 2002, the Department of Defense decided to withhold federal funding from any university that denied official assistance to military recruiters.
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Having a pro-abortion homosexual leftist complain about “morality” make me laugh.
Dear Private Bruce,
We won’t ask about your sex life
Don’t tell us about your sex life
Oh, the horror. Akin to the gulags...
Just gotta love the liberal rewrite of history.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” was Clinton’s way of saving face on trying to get gays into the military, to make it look like he did something about opening the military to gays, and the effort turned out to be wildly unpopular.
The only real difference was that recruits are no longer asked if they are gay, so they can join. But if they act on it, they can still be kicked out.
According to the liberal rewrite, however, the military was wide open to gays and gay behavior, until “don’t ask, don’t tell” came along.
She also complained about the Moral Majority avenging innocent life. It wasn’t a compliment either.
Wonder how this non-judge will rule on gay marriage when she’s a Justice..........
No one says they can’t serve...They just can’t run around in tu tu’s.
Yes, more important than the murder of 50million infants through abortion. < /sarc >
Ask her if it was wrong of the Communist sympathizing Left to harass Roy Cohn over his homosexuality during the McCarthy hearings.
I guess queers showering with straights is OK too. Then why not men with women?
It’s all about sex with these people. How about being competent and doing your job? Then nobody would give a fig who you sleep with at night, or bring to the office party.
Starship Troopers (the movie) pushed that agenda. Yea, right. 18-20 yo showering together.
No Republican will have to guts to tell the truth about this nominee. A person who lives an immoral life is not qualified to serve on the court ... where she may be required to make moral judgements.
>>It’s all about sex with these people.
Sex is part of it, but the broader issue is the legitimization of social/reproductive failure.
Inability to identify, attract, and mate with reproductively viable members of the same species has consequences.... and homosexual activists would like all of us to share in those consequences and call their dysfunction “Normal”.
The behaviors advocated by homosexual activism are no more “normal” than cancer is - and the historical record is clear that they are just as destructive to the social and biological fitness of societies that get lured into “normalizing” their abomination of nature.
Kagan, go eat a large double pepperoni, and STFU.
The bulldyke is angry that other bulldykes can’t share a shower with normal females. How shocking.
The list, ping
Are laws passed by Congress pursuant to its Article I section 8 powers which are "unjust" in the opinion of 5 Justices also unconstitutional?
The male/female mix is one thing. But I believe all this sets a stage for the lessening of morality concerning children. It’s what’s next.
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