Solicitor General Elena Kagan was nominated today for the Supreme Court. Ms. Kagan happens to be an unmarried woman who has not publicly commented on her sexuality( I didn't know she had to!) PLUS...she supports LGBT rights. OMG, (((((shudder))) could she be a lesbian??? The righties are making assumptions about her personal life, they are saying if she's a lesbian she is certainly NOT FIT to serve as a justice. Last month CBS news published an online column by GOP operative Ben Domenech which called Kagan the "first openly gay justice". The White House demanded CBS pull down the post saying the site was applying old stereotypes to single women with successful careers. We all know how the righties feel about "those kinds of women". Successful?? Hell no, barefoot and pregnant is how they like their women, (unless you're one who doesn't like woman, and your preference is young men) Which brings me to the hypocritical Focus on the Family, now they are fine, I assume, with closeted gays in the GOP, but....God forbid a LESBIAN justice???
More hypocritical news, the far-right American Family Association (notice how these right-wing groups have Family in their title?) says the media should come right out and ask Kagan if she is gay, and if she obliged and said yes then she should not serve on the court:
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?
What did they say? No sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility?? When will the Social Conservatives rise up and say NO closeted GAYS in the GOP. ALL gays raise your hands!
Americans for Truth also put out a statement....Kagan needs to answer the question, "are you or were you a practicing homosexual or do you consider yourself gay?" They want NO gays on the court, it will cause a conflict of interest and the gay person will be biased in certain areas. What if gay groups said "NO straight people on the court because of a conflict of interest".
If you are gay you are a second class citizen? You can't make wise and unbiased decisions? Damn....
I can't believe I am typing these words, this is 2010, not 1950. Why are we talking about a persons sexuality? The right never talks about REAL qualifications, they must ALWAYS inject sex in every thing they do, every decision they make is based on sexuality. They have severe problems. But no wonder, look at their "party of perversion".
Just how low will the right go?
UPDATED:
Here are a few things you should know about Elena Kagan:
- 1. Elena Kagan was the first female dean of Harvard Law in the school's 186-year history. During her tenure, she fostered consensus among differing viewpoints, promoted a diversity of opinions, and encouraged a respectful exchange of ideas, earning her great admiration among the student body. She also instituted a financial program that encouraged and assisted students in choosing careers in public service.
- 2. If confirmed, Kagan will be the fourth woman ever seated on the nation’s highest court. And, for the first time, the Supreme Court would have three women serving together.
- 3. In 2009 Kagan was confirmed with bipartisan support as the first female solicitor general of the United States. As solicitor general she represents the U.S. government before the Supreme Court. When she was nominated, every solicitor general from the past 25 years—both Democrats and Republicans—wrote a letter of support, noting Kagan’s “brilliant intellect,” “candor,” and the “high regard in which she is held by persons of a wide variety of political and social views.”
- 4. Kagan has stood up for the rights of ordinary citizens and shareholders against corporations in her work as solicitor general. And even though she knew the odds were long, Kagan chose Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission as the first case she argued before the Supreme Court, defending campaign finance reform against special interests spending unlimited money in an attempt to influence elections.
- 5. Kagan studied history at Princeton University and later attended Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, Kagan clerked for Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court. She credits Marshall with reminding her that “behind law there are stories—stories of people’s lives as shaped by law, stories of people’s lives as might be changed by law.”
- 6. President Obama and Elena Kagan were colleagues at the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s before Kagan joined Harvard Law. As an academic, her scholarship focused on issues ranging from freedom of speech to government policy making—issues that have had a profound effect on daily life.
- 7. Kagan is the granddaughter of immigrants and grew up in a family that emphasized service to others. Her parents were the first members of her family to attend college, and both parents taught their daughter the value of public service. Kagan’s father was a housing lawyer who fought for tenants’ rights. Her mother was a public school teacher. Kagan would follow in both parents’ footsteps, becoming both a lawyer and a teacher and inspiring the next generation of public servants.
