What, you thought Supreme Court justice hopeful Sonia Sotomayor was going to meet senators’ litmus test on same-sex marriage? Oh hellz no!
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) tried to get her on the record about whether she would allow a state to grant marriage licenses to gays, referencing the Minnesota case Baker vs. Nelson. But she wasn’t budging, declining to give a real answer because of the cases moving their way through the courts.
Watch the above clip, and you tell us: Any indication, to your perspective, that she’s leaning one way or the other?
(Sotomayor also dodged questions on abortion. None of her deflection should be terribly surprising.)
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Bob Sees
Putting marriage equality to a Supreme Court vote would be disastrous. Sotomayor seems level-headed and very intelligent, no matter where she stands on the issue. It is another harshly worded ruling from the authoritarian, oppressive, & prudish Scalia that I’m worried about. He is an activist judge and he rules like a bishop from the middle ages.
Wait about 10 years or so, or at least until we have 20 or so states on board. Younger generations NEED to grow up (literally) before we challenge this because every younger generation is more in support of us.
galefan2004
@Bob Sees: Actually, younger generations need to vote. It makes no difference where they stand politically if they don’t stand at all. The seniors need to disappear and the younger generations need to vote. You can’t do anything about the seniors except waiting for them to die.
However, getting younger generations to actually vote is something that you might be able to do, but the truth is they just don’t vote on a regular basis. They vote in big elections to support candidates that garner national attention (see Obama), but their votes simply do not control congress because congressional elections are smaller and happen in years when presidential candidates are not running.
Its hard as hell to get any civil rights activities accomplished when the entire nation (even the majority of the people getting discriminated against) are apathetic and would rather accept things as bad than try to change them for the fear that they will just end up worse. The majority of people do not want to get involved, and that is just something we have learned to live with as a nation. FFS, more people vote for American Idol than vote for elected officials.
Cam
@Bob Sees:
Hi Bob,
If Scalia has any integrity…which I am not holding my breath on. He has to vote for gay marriage, because of an earlier descent. he said that the courts ruling in another case opens up no other options than to approve gay marraige. I’m sure he’ll find a way to weasel out of it since bascially he is seeming more and more like a mouthpeice for the Pope. But we can always hope that he actually is the constitutionalist he CLAIMS to be. Although I seriously doubt it.
As for Sotomeyor, what worries me is that Souter was a fairly reliable gay supportive vote and I have heard nothing on her opinions. I hope she is supportive.
galefan2004
@Cam: You won’t hear anything on her opinions on any major issue. They are completely confident that she is getting confirmed so the “wise Latina woman” is going to do what all Latina’s do when they aren’t taking our jobs or running across our borders and sit back with her family and make fun of the white men.
RainaWeather
@galefan2004:
Sam
@galefan2004: You are a racist fuck. Please go away.
galefan2004
@Sam: Truth hurts. The difference between you and me is you think being racist (promoting my race above all others) is a bad thing, and I think its about time we start doing it before the people in power are taking white slaves and denying white men their rights. Hell, they already take the jobs from white men with lovely things like Affirmative Action. When Affirmative Action became the minority quota system that it is today it became unfair to the white man. I can’t help it if the truth hurts. It is still the truth. I’m about as racist as the NAACP and whatever organization this Latina chick belongs to.
Sam
@galefan2004: You are also an ignorant idiot. Please go away.
galefan2004
@Sam: I’m sorry that you don’t realize that their is a minority move to take over this country. I really hope you aren’t a white male because that makes you in a true minority, and you will eventually be dealt with by the people in power. White men got their turn at running this country, now it is being taken over by minorities. History has shown that when minorities come to power the first thing they do is attack their supposed oppressors.
Sam
@galefan2004: I am a white male, and you disgust me. Please go away.
Mike
Galefan2004, please die.
Thank you.
A White Man
Wilbert
@galefan2004: I read Queerty all the time, and have never left a comment, but your racist remarks just can not go unchecked. I am a white male from the midwest and the only reason we will have future race issues is because of people like you. Please stop, it make me sick to my stomach to see that you have such hatred for people who you have never met.
Bob Sees
She is on our side. just found this out:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/05/26/sotomayor-and-gay-rights
Says:
“Ettelbrick said she met Sotomayor in about 1991 when they both served on then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo’s advisory committee on fighting bias.
“Nobody wanted to talk to the queer person at that time,” said Ettelbrick, who represented Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. “She was the only one [on the advisory committee] who made a point to come over and introduce herself. She was totally interested [in gay civil rights issues] and supportive.”
Also the human rights campaign said this:
“Judge Sotomayor has consistently recognized the constitutional right to privacy, first articulated in Griswold, that lays the foundation for fundamental rights for LGBT people.”
Also this
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/06/10/sotomayor39s-pro-gay-past-emerges/
If she announced her support in 1976, of rights for everyone including gays, back in an era when they were still largely marginalized, then I see no reason why she wouldn’t do it now.
TikiHead
Good gracious, Galefan is um… a racist loon. And ACLU does ‘defend NAMBLA’ — they defend free speech. Big difference. Huge difference.