Posted on 05/10/2010 10:31:35 AM PDT by DesertRenegade
It is no more of an empirical question than whether she is Jewish. We know she is Jewish, and it is a fact simply and rightly put in the public square. If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or self-loathing. And yet we have been told by many that she is gay ... and no one will ask directly if this is true and no one in the administration will tell us definitively.
In a word, this is preposterous - a function of liberal cowardice and conservative discomfort. It should mean nothing either way. Since the issue of this tiny minority - and the right of the huge majority to determine its rights and equality - is a live issue for the court in the next generation, and since it would be bizarre to argue that a Justice's sexual orientation will not in some way affect his or her judgment of the issue, it is only logical that this question should be clarified. It's especially true with respect to Obama. He has, after all, told us that one of his criteria for a Supreme Court Justice is knowing what it feels like to be on the wrong side of legal discrimination. Well: does he view Kagan's possible life-experience as a gay woman relevant to this? Did Obama even ask about it? Are we ever going to know one way or the other? Does she have a spouse? Is this spouse going to be forced into the background in a way no heterosexual spouse ever would be?
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
Yes, she is Jewish. A secular Jew. A group that represents less than 2 percent of our population may now hold 33 percent of the seats on the Court. So much for the president’s hollow boasting about a Court that reflects America. Evangelical Christians, some 27 percent of the population, have zero seats. Important because as a whole, secular Jews traditionally hold cultural values—abortion, same sex marriage—at odds with majority opinion in the country as a whole. Also, in international affairs, they disproportionately have an unfortunate tendency to identify with America’s enemies.
Reports have it that she dated Eliot Spitzer while the two attended Harvard. We know that Mr.Spitzer eventually turned to hookers for their services......hmmm wonder why?
In a rational world her being ‘gay’ would be far down the list of reasons to reject her nomination outright.
Oh please. Is she? Really? Someone is asking that question?
Is this a joke? She wouldn’t be nominated if she weren’t.
No one that GOD made can be changed from what they are... not even by mutilation.
LLS
I would agree that the reason for rejection are myriad. However, she’s already confirmed...because (as of 11/4/08) we have 1-party rule.
For an openly gay man or not, Sullivan shows an obsessive interest in what has been occurring in the nether regions of two prominent women (Palin and Kagan). Um, Andrew? Let’s judge them by what they do, not what their reproductive proclivities are. (Isn’t that really the central tenet of gay rights, anyway?)
Get the net.
The left believes she's qualified just on the basis alone. Which means she's not qualified.
Maybe Andy is a closet hetero.
I keep telling myself that there is justice, and then there is “social justice”. There are rights, and then there are “positive rights”. Then I turn around and bad mouth some poor guy for trying to set off a bomb in Times Square just because he was made to feel different. Then there are the nightmares about gay pride parades down the main street in Fort Bragg on the fourth of July.
Well I guess I ought to take a good look in the mirror and face up to the fact that I have a sedition addiction.
Anybody seen a good lesbian movie lately?
“Im a little curious why anyone thinks its relevant that shes Jewish or gay.”
I think it’s a simple matter of people being concerned that a ‘woman’ who can’t even distinguish between male from female has no business sitting for a lifetime term on the USSC. You don’t need any degrees to figure that one out.
When our side uses their term GAY it buys into the false claim promoted by the left that the queers are carefree and without malice.
I think this is probably the first and last time I will be in agreement with someone who appears to suffer from AIDS dementia.
Do we really? I guess she must have a Jewish mother. But is it that she doe that is Jewish? Does she belong to a synagogue? Does she ever attend a synagogue? Does she ever quote Torah? What? I don't know. I'm asking.
ML/NJ
What’s that thing?
Maybe she’s a ‘femme.’
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