Demand a White House apology: nothing wrong with openly gay candidates for Supreme Court!

White House needs to apologize: nothing wrong with openly gay candidates for Supreme Court!

Greetings,

WHEREAS:

*A 2010 CBS news poll indicates that 40% of Americans would oppose a Supreme Court Justice who happens to be gay regardless of qualifications.

*Gay Americans have faced a history of invidious discrimination.

*An openly gay Supreme Court Justice has yet to be nominated or appointed in the entire history of the United States.

*106 of the past 111 Supreme Court Justices of the United States have been heterosexual, white men.

*White House officials responded extremely negatively to the mere suggestion that candidate Elena Kagan might be gay -- Anita Dunn said: "The fact that they've chosen to become enablers of people posting lies on their site tells us where the journalistic standards of CBS are in 2010." Spokesman Ben LaBolt said the column "made false charges." ("Charges"
being an extremely loaded word that implies something very negative.)

*Diversity characteristics, including one's sexual orientation, are and should be deemed positive factors in a candidate's nomination to the Supreme Court and not a negative characteristic as White House officials have strongly implied.

NOW, therefore I demand those White House officials apologize for their extremely insensitive and homophobic remarks and state that the White House does indeed view sexual orientation as a positive diversity characteristic. Further, that any and all qualified candidates for the Supreme Court who happen to be gay will indeed be considered.

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