Who Cares?

Commentary By Ron Beasley

I was listening to Thom Hartmann this morning and a lesbian called in insisting that Elena Kagan come out of the closet.  Andrew Sullivan is on the same trip:

It is no more of an empirical question than whether she is Jewish. We
know she is Jewish, and it is a fact simply and rightly put in the
public square. If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly
odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or
self-loathing. And yet we have been told by many that she is gay ... and
no one will ask directly if this is true and no one in the
administration will tell us definitively.

Of course there is no evidence she is in the closet:

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?

Did anyone ask Roberts or Alito about their sex lives?  Did anyone think it made any difference?  It's irrelevant, just as the fact she is Jewish is irrelevant.  This is the way the Gay and Lesbian community can reverse the gains they are making.