"Liberal cowardice" and "conservative discomfort" are burying the question many privately are posing about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, asserts noted political commentator and blogger Andrew Sullivan, who identifies himself as a gay Catholic.(So is she gay?)"If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or self-loathing,"Sullivan reasoned. "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." [snip] The White House tried to quash the issue last month...