Bird’s-Eye: The first recorded gays lived in Egypt: who knew? Other things we don’t know include the orientation of Elena Kagan, Obama’s latest nominee for the Supreme Court. But a lot of people seem to care, passionately. (The American Family Association says, “We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility” which we hope means a lot of Republicans are about to resign) And a wonderful must-read rant by the mother of a gay man on those who have made his life harder.
The first recorded same sex couple in history… with pictures!
* Elena Kagan Is Not Gay 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 romantic 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 gay. Is she straight? I don’t know, and again, I don’t care. Why does she have to have a sexuality at all?
* The Best Thing I’ve Read All Year Andrew Tobias
I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you good people.
I’m tired of your foolish rhetoric about the “homosexual agenda” and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.
My firstborn son started suffering at the hands of the moral little thugs from your moral, upright families from the time he was in the first grade….
