ALTHOUGH SUPREME COURT nominee Elena Kagan comes without a record of written judicial opinions, according to her written answers submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2009, her views on marriage equality match that of the president:
1. As Solicitor General, you would be charged with defending the Defense of Marriage Act. That law, as you may know, was enacted by overwhelming majorities of both houses of Congress (85-14 in the Senate and 342-67 in the House) in 1996 and signed into law by President Clinton.
a. Given your rhetoric about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy—you called it "a profound wrong—a moral injustice of the first order"—let me ask this basic question: Do you believe that there is a federal constitutional right to same- sex marriage?
Answer: There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Her answer was definitive and unambiguous...
I KEEP THIS DIARY short and to the point because so often of late discussion of the issues here has been drowned out by partisan rhetoric or devalued by the accusation of wanting "ponies".
And so I am keeping it to this simple fact: Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan believes that marriage equality is not a consitutional right.
Whether that affects your support of her nomination is, of course, your indivudal view.
As for me, it's enough to agitate for the question again being asked at her confirmation hearing, and if her answer remains the same, to oppose her confirmation.
