We really don’t care about Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation. In fact, it’s a subject on which we’d prefer to remain blissfully ignorant. There mere thought of it puts shivers up our spines.
But ever since the Wall Street Journal ran an old photo of Kagan playing softball, her old friends have been leaping to her defense, swearing that she’s not a lesbian. (Who knew that enjoying softball was a sure indicator of homosexuality?).
Politico.com provides too much information:
“I’ve known her for most of her adult life and I know she’s straight,” said Sarah Walzer, Kagan’s roommate in law school and a close friend since then. “She dated men when we were in law school, we talked about men — who in our class was cute, who she would like to date, all of those things. She definitely dated when she was in D.C. after law school, when she was in Chicago – and she just didn’t find the right person.”…
Another friend, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, a member of Kagan’s social circle at Princeton University, wanted to make the same point as Walzer. “I did not go out with her, but other guys did,” he said in an email Tuesday night. “I don’t think it is my place to say more.”…
Walzer recalled “discussion about who she might be interested in – the usual girl talk stuff– talk about how to get his attention.”
Just as Freud said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” we say that sometimes “sliding headfirst into home plate” is just a description of a play in softball and not a sexual euphemism.
Far as we’re concerned, being a lesbian shouldn’t disqualify Kagan from being on the Supreme Court. But being friends with a scumball like Eliot Spitzer for 30 years is another matter.
Source: Politico.com
