Reply #90: I read Kagan is "fiercely" pro-choice and pro-equal rights. [View All]

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Some think she may be gay. However, as we know all too well, that doesn't always translate to actions with conservatives as most or all of them vote anti-GLBT, regardless of their own respective orientation. Nonetheless, if she is gay AND also unabashedly pro-equal rights, that would be truly cool.

For me, equal rights for all humans is tantamount to a litmus test. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4337691&mesg_id=4338954

And, if I were gay, that might well be my ONLY litmus test, given all the shit gays have had to deal with their entire lives--and I truly wish you and everyone else had been spared that. Once someone passed that one test, I might just exhale and relax about Kagan. So, I will not complain if anyone does that.

As it is, though, I have other problems with Kagan, even though they say she is pro-equal rights and pro-choice (which is also part of equal rights for all humans, IMO). For some examples, please see Reply#51 and please also see the article in Salon that Greenwald wrote about Kagan. I just tried to get you the link but the site is down for maintenance. However, other posts on this thread have the link or you can google salon greenwald kagan conservative.

The issues on the list are very significant, IMO. Civil rights, indefinite detention, executive powers, etc. Plus, her job includes supervising litigation by the D of J that has been the subject of many threads here, with no one, even the cheerleaders, praising the position taken by the D of J. (One of the briefs did equate homosexuality and incest, pedophilia and bestiality but most of the cases have been around FOIA, "terra": detainees, torture etc.)

And, there is the also significant (IMO) issue of ideological balance on the court. The last thing the Court needs right now is another conservative, especially one appointed by a Democratic President.