Elena kagan gay
The first female Solicitor General of the United States and now an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan is a prominent legal scholar and jurist who has advocated for justice and equality since childhood.
Born in New York Urban area on April 28, , Elena Kagan is the daughter of Robert Kagan, an attorney, and Gloria (Gittelman) Kagan, a academy teacher. Kagan’s father represented the rights of tenants in the city’s many co-op conversions and her mother was known as a demanding but dedicated instructor at Hunter College Elementary Educational facility. Their work in law and education inspired Kagan’s future career path, as well as that of her two brothers, who are both school teachers.
Kagan was raised Jewish and her family belonged to Lincoln Square Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A top student at her Hebrew school, she strongly desired to mark her coming of age with a bat mitzvah when she was 12 years old. However, her Orthodox synagogue had never held a bat mitzvah, as only boys were allowed to observe their bar mitzvahs in the Orthodox tradition at the time. Jewish girls
Kagan and the 'Gay Question' Controversy
WASHINGTON, May 13, &#; -- When Elena Kagan goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee this summer, she'll be asked dozens of questions by probing senators eager to know the influence her education, career road, family life and personal views would have on her judicial philosophy.
What she almost certainly won't be asked, based on decades of precedent and proof hearings, are questions about her sexuality. But that hasn't stopped a mixed cast of queer and conservative bloggers from doing it instead, sparking a boisterous debate about a nominee's personal life never seen before.
No evidence has proven that Kagan herself is lgbtq+, which both her college friends and administration supporters own flatly denied. Before the nomination, Colorless House consultant Anita Dunn said assertions by a conservative blogger for CBS News that Kagan is gay amounted to "people posting lies," while Alabaster House spokesman Ben LaBolt called them "false charges."
Moreover, it's clear from a recent ABCNew
&#;why does she have to have a sexuality at all?&#;
I like that question!
Here&#;s how Richard Kim ends his very lucid upload in The Nation.
I don&#;t know if Elena Kagan sleeps with women or men. I don&#;t know if she sleeps with anyone at all. I don&#;t care. What I do know is that she has never claimed to be a lesbian, that she&#;s never spoken out in the first-person as an advocate of gay rights and that she has never publicly discussed a love-related relationship with a lady. Gay isn&#;t some genetic or soulful essence; it&#;s a name you dial yourself&#;and Kagan has not done that. So in my book, case closed. Elena Kagan is not gay. Is she straight? I don&#;t know, and again, I don&#;t take care. Why does she contain to have a sexuality at all?
In a way, the mystery about her sexuality mirrors the mystery about her legal philosophy. We just don&#;t realize a whole lot. The Senate and the push have the right and responsibility to interrogate her about her legal opinions—not about her sex life.
*Actually, it&#;s in The Nation&#;s blog, which they contact The Notion, which always seems
Human Rights Campaign Congratulates Elena Kagan on Her Confirmation as Associate Justice of the Unit
by HRC Staff •
"We commend the Senate for confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. She has demonstrated a understanding of the necessitate for equality for all Americans and her document indicates she may be more familiar with how laws and policies disturb the LGBT community than any previously confirmed Justice," said HRC President Joe Solmonese
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, multi-attracted and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today praised the United States Senate for confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The Senate voted with 5 Republicans voting in favor of her affirmation and 1 Democrats voting against it.
"We commend the Senate for confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. "She has demonstrated an understanding of the need for equality for all Americans and her record indicates