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I stand by my statement - that for a position as important as a position on the supreme court actual experience as a judge would be important, just as prior job experience matters for pretty much anything someone applies for. However, their sexual orientation doesn't mean a thing IMO.....
Agree, people's private lives are just that, private. Back in the day.... no self respecting conservative would even dream of invading people's privacy and personal life; such things were off limits. By looking up Roy Cohn we can see that the GOP and conservative world tolerated this hugely gay person .... back in the day. Today, the GOP, and especially groups like the AFA, et al, would tar and feather this guy. Why? What's changed?
The SCOTUS has plenty of jurists with bench time and actually could use the perspective of someone who has not been on the bench before. Kagan is well regarded in most circles, save for what passes today for GOP conservatives who will do anything to keep Kagan off the court. It's a true shame that our politics is so poisonous, we are destroying ourselves from within.
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I stand by my statement - that for a position as important as a position on the supreme court actual experience as a judge would be important, just as prior job experience matters for pretty much anything someone applies for. However, their sexual orientation doesn't mean a thing IMO.
You've got a decent message, just tone down the rhetoric. (clowns, American Taliban, evango-fascists ...)
"""""I stand by my statement - that for a position as important as a position on the supreme court actual experience as a judge would be important"""""
If other judges didn't have the experience but have done a good job why do you stick to your stance??? Doesn't make sense...
Is it because a BLACK man appointed a FEMALE, a lesbian no less!!!?????
If she was open about being gay, there's no doubt that we would hear social conservatives complaining, "Why does she have to announce her sexuality to the world?!"
IF she were gay, and it were disclosed at this point, wouldn't it give the conservatives a tizzy about the potential for legalizing gay marriage?
IF she were gay, and it were disclosed at this point, wouldn't it give the conservatives a tizzy about the potential for legalizing gay marriage?
Absolutely. Ironically, she has said that she believes the Defense Of Marriage Act is constitutional. Of course, that still wouldn't stop them from attacking her for being possibly gay.
I personally could care less if she's gay or not. But since homosexuals have made it Agenda Item #1 to put their sexuality out in the forefront of American issues, I say shove her out of the closet and vet her for every ounce of her being. If gays want to be wholly recognized, then she should own up to her personal circumstance and be subject to the ramifications of that circumstance.
I heard on the radio that this woman, while at Harvard, found the "Dont Ask, Dont Tell" policy so discriminatory that she banned military recruiters from campus.
While I admire her principles and her character, I also realize this is red meat to all the droolers out there.
I also heard "that she would be the only Protestant" on the Supreme Court.
Who &%$# Cares?
she's jewish, not Protestant. i hope that our Senate does not stoop down to the level of questioning her or anyone's sexual orientation for a Court nomination. That would be a really bad day for our Country.
I personally could care less if she's gay or not. But since homosexuals have made it Agenda Item #1 to put their sexuality out in the forefront of American issues, I say shove her out of the closet and vet her for every ounce of her being. If gays want to be wholly recognized, then she should own up to her personal circumstance and be subject to the ramifications of that circumstance.
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