Possible candidate for LAPD's top job is gay -- so what?

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 08/26/2002 | James Sterngold

[Pokey78]

Los Angeles -- David J. Kalish describes himself as one of those lucky few who has succeeded in a career he loves, while enjoying an enviably stable and happy personal life. He is in a long-term relationship with a Thai man, and he dotes on his 3 1/2-year-old son, born to a lesbian friend through artificial insemination.

[billorites]

Sounds like the plot outline for a musical comedy.

[chance33_98]

Give him the job, I just got finished watching the simpsons episode where he grows hair and gets promoted and is helped by a gay executive secretary who can do anything.

[WhiteGuy]

Sounds like he's qualified.

What he does off-duty is none of anyone's business.

[Dante3]

In LA being the father on an illegitemate child should get him the Hollywood in-crowd's support.

[toupsie]

Isn't that special.

[Between the Lines]

He is in a long-term relationship with a Thai man, and he dotes on his 3 1/2-year-old son, born to a lesbian friend through artificial insemination. Over lunch, Kalish shows off a batch of photos of his young crime fighter, wearing a cape and an effervescent smile, and he describes the close relationship he and his partner, a Buddhist, enjoy with the boy's mother, a Latina, and her lesbian partner.

Sounds like this guy has been preparing for the chief of police position every since the Rodney King beating. Look it's diversity man our new crime fighting hero!

[Caipirabob]

Great. Knew I saw that guy somewhere before. Sort of lends a whole knew meaning to "being put in the pokey".

[Dialup Llama]

>What he does off-duty is none of anyone's business.

And yet he makes it everyones business.

[chance33_98]

[uncbob]

He is in a long-term relationship with a Thai man, and he dotes on his 3 1/2-year-old son, born to a lesbian friend through artificial insemination.

Talk about the nuclear family

[an amused spectator]

Possible candidate for LAPD's top job is gay -- so what?

They want to hire a guy that has a dangerous pre-existing medial condition? I'll bet that they wouldn't hire him if he smoked six packs of cigarettes a day, and flaunted the fact in their faces. ;-)

[FormerLurker]

I suppose if this goes through, the LAPD would be known as "The Boys In Pink"....

I'd be a bit concerned about the "pat downs".

[flyervet]

There are no illegitimate children. Only illegitimate parents.

[an amused spectator]

What he does off-duty is none of anyone's business.

Sure it is, if his condition ends up costing the taxpayers money. If he was an open alcoholic or drug addict, should the taxpayers hire him? In his case, the average life expectancy of a gay man is around 40, so he's gone way beyond the actuary tables. His medical condition is a ticking time bomb for anyone who hires him.

[chance33_98]

A thai guy

[Wallace T.]

This story about Los Angeles possibly choosing a homosexual for its police commissioner and the much larger thread about the alien invasion of Los Angeles and the rest of the U.S. are not isolated. Fifty years ago, Los Angeles was a conservative city, for the most part, despite some liberal strongholds in the entertainment industry, in the Jewish community, and among organized labor. The Los Angeles area was a stronghold of political conservatism, especially Orange County, where a 1960s-era Congressman who represented the area once joked that he had joined the John Birch Society to get the middle of the road vote. The predominant element in the area was middle class whites, many of whom had migrated from the South, the inland West, and the Midwest to work in various industries.

What happened? In part, the overwhelming tide of immigrants, not only Hispanic, but also Asian, has rendered much of Southern California, and indeed other areas, unrecognizable as part of America. Furthermore, too many Baby Boom and Generation X sons and daughters of the white conservative GI and Silent Generations rejected traditional Western culture and the orthodox Christian faith for liberalism, multiculturalism and either religious indifference or humanism. Thus, many of these second generation Californians embraced the "rights" revolution that placed nonwhites, illegal immigrants, and sexual perverts into a status of enjoying special privileges. As a result, a man who would be shunned for his immorality even 30 years ago may have the high honor of being the police commissioner of America's second largest city.

It is probably too late for California to turn around. I pray it is not too late for America.

[truenospinzone]

And yet he makes it everyones business.

From the article: "many members of the force do not even know of his orientation". Doesn't sound like he makes it everyone's business. I doubt he hides his orientation, which I know many would prefer, but it certainly doesn't look like he introduces himself as "Gay Police Man".

[ohioman]

What a sickening excuse for a human being. I wish him all the worst.

[Psalm 73]

"He is in a long-term relationship with a Thai man, and he dotes on his 3 1/2-year-old son, born to a lesbian friend through artificial insemination."

Oh, he's a shoo-in, for sure.
How can they deny him - you know if he doesn't get the job it'll be because he's being discriminated against...