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 Capital on April 28, , Elena Kagan is the daughter of Robert Kagan, an attorney, and Gloria (Gittelman) Kagan, a college 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 consecrated teacher at Hunter College Elementary School. Their function in law and knowledge 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 prevent mitzvahs in the Orthodox tradition at the second. 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 understand the influence her education, career path, 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 confirmation hearings, are questions about her sexuality. But that hasn't stopped a mixed cast of gay 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 gay, which both her college friends and administration supporters have flatly denied. Before the nomination, Ivory House consultant Anita Dunn said assertions by a conservative blogger for CBS News that Kagan is gay amounted to "people posting lies," while Colorless House spokesman Ben LaBolt called them "false charges."
Moreover, it's clear from a recent ABCNew
&#;why does she include to have a sexuality at all?&#;
I like that question!
Here&#;s how Richard Kim ends his very lucid post 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 understand 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 lovey-dovey relationship with a woman. Gay isn&#;t some genetic or soulful essence; it&#;s a name you call yourself&#;and Kagan has not done that. So in my book, case closed. Elena Kagan is not same-sex attracted. Is she straight? I don&#;t realize, and again, I don&#;t care. Why does she hold 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 recognize a whole lot. The Senate and the press own the right and responsibility to probe her about her legal opinions—not about her sex life.
*Actually, it&#;s in The Nation&#;s blog, which they call 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 desire for equality for all Americans and her record indicates she may be more familiar with how laws and policies alter the LGBT community than any previously confirmed Justice," said HRC President Joe Solmonese
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights company, today applauded 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 confirmation 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 log indicates