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Christian Right’s Growing Hysterics Regarding Impending Confirmation of Elena Kagan

06/29/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Senator Jeff Sessions has rather spectacularly continued to play on the supposed banning of all military recruiters under Elena Kagan’s tenure as Dean of Harvard Law, but he is not the only one doing so.  Recently, the Alliance Defense Fund has issued an ACTION ALERT(!) over her supposed adherence to the Homosexual AGENDA (DUH DUH DUH!)

They quoted MassResistance’s rundown of all the supposed ways in which Elena Kagan is supporting equality in the United States and cite as their main reasoning events that did not happen while she was at Harvard.  Here is their rationale:

“Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is committed to the radical campaign pushing acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism as ‘civil rights.’ Her unprecedented activism supporting that view as Dean of Harvard Law School (2003-2009) calls into question her ability to judge fairly and impartially on same-sex ‘marriage’ and other homosexuality- or transgender-related issues that may come before the nation’s highest court. … Working hand in hand with students to expel military recruiters in protest over the Armed Forces’ ban on homosexuals (a ‘moral injustice of the first order,’ she wrote) is only the most obvious example of Kagan’s passionate dedication to this controversial and immoral agenda.”

Solicitor General Kagan is more than likely to be confirmed to the Supreme Court where she will be the third woman to sit on the current court.  It should be noted that the odds on are that the Court will rule in favor of LGBT Rights even without her since it is highly unlikely that President Barack Obama will nominate anyone approaching the Christian Theocratic Conservative that groups like the ADF would want in the Court.  In fact, they did not even get that with President George W. Bush since it is hard to determine whether or not Chief Justice John Roberts is a theocrat.

It should not be surprising that the ADF, the Christian Right, and Senator Jeff Sessions are trying to use this anti-LGBT and anti-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell talking point despite the fact that the majority of all Americans now believe that DADT is wrong.  These people have begun to fall further and further out of the mainstream all the time attacking a person who is, at best, Center Left in her political positions.  Their hysterical belief that the end of civilization will occur should lesbians, gays and transpeople have any equality with the rest of the nation only shows that they are afraid of the world changing and that their power and their beliefs will be irrelevant.