How Gay Is Elena Kagan?

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Gayer than the annual convention of the K.D. Lang Fan Club, but the White House was so eager to slam Ben Domenech as author of a right-wing “whisper campaign” that now the Obama administration finds itself lashed to the mast of its adamant insistence on Kagan’s heterosexuality.

The weekend merriment is recounted by The Week (“A lesbian smear campaign?”) and by Lachlan Markay at Newsbusters:

Left-wing bloggers Julian Sanchez and Matt Yglesias shared Domenech’s apparently mistaken belief that Kagan was a lesbian. As Sanchez noted on Twitter, “Gay news sites treat it as common knowledge.”

Markay’s post involves a “smear” of a different sort: Sanchez isn’t “left-wing,” he’s a libertarian who works for the Cato Institute. NTTAWWT. But the point is that Elena Kagan was identified as a lesbian by people who aren’t anti-gay, including Jennifer Vanasco at the Seattle Gay News:

Suddenly, it seems possible that the next Supreme Court pick might be a lesbian. … Solicitor General Elena Kagan is not openly gay at the moment — which, of course, may mean she’s not gay at all. But persistent rumors, an absence of denial, and some assurances from people I trust make me think that, yeah, she probably is. And she’s right now on the short list of potential Supreme Court nominees to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on his retirement this summer.

However, the administration’s reaction leads Stephen H. Miller to write, “Is the ‘Charge’ of Being Gay a Slur? Ask Obama.” Miller quotes Sanchez’s boss at Cato, David Boaz:

[A] White House spokesman, Ben LaBolt, said he complained to CBS because the column “made false charges.” I would have hoped that in 2010, in a liberal White House, the statement that someone is gay would not be considered a “charge.” The American Heritage Dictionary defines “charge” as “a claim of wrongdoing; an accusation.” For many decades it was indeed a “charge,” and a career-ending one, to be identified as gay. I would hope that’s no longer true, and I’m disappointed in the White House’s language.

Of course, there are serious considerations involved here, but I’m still laughing at the overwhelming silliness of it all. The White House, in its eagerness to depict right-wingers as hateful homophobes, has staked its credibility on Elena Kagan being straight.

And she’s gayer than the audience at a Greta Garbo film festival!

UPDATE: Doggone it, I’m trying to have some good harmless fun with this, and Peter Beinart has to get all serious:

 If Solicitor General Elana Kagan gets the nod, conservatives will beat the hell out of her for opposing military recruitment on campus when she was dean of Harvard Law School. And liberals should concede the point; the conservatives will be right.

But that’s no fun at all, Beinart. The fun part is, Elena Kagan is gayer than the semi-finalists in a Janet Reno lookalike contest!

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  8. She’s at least queer as the dorks in the “Zoosk” ad I’m looking at on this site as I type this.

    Yeah, as soon as you start blogging about gay stuff, it’s picked up by the Adsense algorithm, and that’s what you get. Maybe I should blog more about big boobies and see what the ad selection turns up.

  9. She’s at least queer as the dorks in the “Zoosk” ad I’m looking at on this site as I type this.

    Yeah, as soon as you start blogging about gay stuff, it’s picked up by the Adsense algorithm, and that’s what you get. Maybe I should blog more about big boobies and see what the ad selection turns up.

  10. Kagan gay or not? And Janet Napolitano is not gay? I am not sure Sotomayor is gay or not. Souter may have been gay too (or asexual). I could care less about Kagan’s sexual orientation. What I care about is her judicial orientation. If she had the same judicial philosophy as Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts, and happened to be gay, I would be well… gay too (in the happy definition of the word, although perhaps I could be a lesbian trapped in a male body).

  11. Kagan gay or not? And Janet Napolitano is not gay? I am not sure Sotomayor is gay or not. Souter may have been gay too (or asexual). I could care less about Kagan’s sexual orientation. What I care about is her judicial orientation. If she had the same judicial philosophy as Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts, and happened to be gay, I would be well… gay too (in the happy definition of the word, although perhaps I could be a lesbian trapped in a male body).

  14. Actually, I was thinking of Lou Costello.

    Why do you hate Lou Costello so much? Because of the “Who’s on third?” shtick?

  15. Actually, I was thinking of Lou Costello.

    Why do you hate Lou Costello so much? Because of the “Who’s on third?” shtick?

  22. In the entire history of the Supreme Court, MOST of the justices preferred women…what’s the problem? (Tongue planted firmly in cheek!)

  23. In the entire history of the Supreme Court, MOST of the justices preferred women…what’s the problem? (Tongue planted firmly in cheek!)

  24. Well, if one believes the supermarket tabloids-hey The National Enquirer was right about John Edwards-the Dear Leader himself may have been, I guess ambivilant,about his own sexuality. Maybe that is why he left Oxy. Hey, if nothing else it stirs the pot, doesn’t it?!

  25. Well, if one believes the supermarket tabloids-hey The National Enquirer was right about John Edwards-the Dear Leader himself may have been, I guess ambivilant,about his own sexuality. Maybe that is why he left Oxy. Hey, if nothing else it stirs the pot, doesn’t it?!

  33. Wow. Nothing like a little gay-bashing to bring the troglodytes out of the-ahem-closet.
    But you know what they say about those who over-compensate their supposed masculinity.
    You hick faggots are losers for life.
    I understand now why you are all so angry…

  34. Wow. Nothing like a little gay-bashing to bring the troglodytes out of the-ahem-closet.
    But you know what they say about those who over-compensate their supposed masculinity.
    You hick faggots are losers for life.
    I understand now why you are all so angry…

  40. once obama is deemed an illegal alien as he was born in kenya, kagan will be back at harvard.

  41. once obama is deemed an illegal alien as he was born in kenya, kagan will be back at harvard.

  43. A supreme court justice sympathetic to the homosexual agenda positioned to interperate the meaning of law is not what the founding fathers had in mind when they crafted the constitution.They were god fearing(and believing) men of christian values.I am sure they had no intention of ever opening the door to freedom for a homosexual agenda.We should not allow it .Love the sinner hate the sin,but what ever you do don’t enable it.This cannot be!!!!!!

  44. A supreme court justice sympathetic to the homosexual agenda positioned to interperate the meaning of law is not what the founding fathers had in mind when they crafted the constitution.They were god fearing(and believing) men of christian values.I am sure they had no intention of ever opening the door to freedom for a homosexual agenda.We should not allow it .Love the sinner hate the sin,but what ever you do don’t enable it.This cannot be!!!!!!

  45. This needs to be approached objectivly,clinicly,and spiritualy with great persistence. Cheap slams only bring reproach .This is a spirit that is besieging our nation and others.It has been judged!!!

  46. This needs to be approached objectivly,clinicly,and spiritualy with great persistence. Cheap slams only bring reproach .This is a spirit that is besieging our nation and others.It has been judged!!!

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