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The state funeral for Sen. Robert Byrd has delayed Family Research Council head Tony Perkins’ testimony at Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. But Good As You has the text of Perkins’ planned remarks. An excerpt: Her own statements make obvious that Elena Kagan would strike down any marital statute – including the federal Defense of Marriage Act – which …

Kagan seems to be charming even the asshats.

Considering that she will likely be hearing the Proposition 8 case in the next couple of years, Elena Kagan had to pull her punches when asked about states’ rights and same-sex marriage.

Definitely the oddest moment of the day.

At her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, today nominee Elena Kagan strongly stated her continuing opposition to DADT, much to the annoyance of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Later Kagan told Sessions that “One thing I do know is that my politics would be, must be, have to be completely separate from my judging.”

The wackos at the poorly punctuated Pray In Jesus Name Project have launched a fax campaign to oppose the Supreme Court confirmation of Elena Kagan. And look who they’ve hired. Chaplain Klingenschmitt has contracted with a team of investigative journalists including Brian Camenker, Amy Contrada and Peter LaBarbera to investigate and report breaking news about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. …

“The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 ruling, now says that no university can give its imprimatur to discriminatory organizations if that university has an ‘all-comers’ policy of requiring every group to accept every membership applicant. In this case, the Court is suggesting that orthodox Judeo-Christian teaching against homosexual conduct is untenable on America ‘s university campuses. This is a grave …

Wow. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Vatican, which was attempting to shield itself from child molestation lawsuits in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider whether the Vatican has legal immunity over the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the United States, allowing a lawsuit filed in 2002 to go …

In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has ruled that California’s public universities can deny recognition and funding to a Christian legal club that denied membership to gay students. The court turned away an appeal from the Christian Legal Society, which sued to get funding and recognition from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law. The CLS requires …

Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin today. And on the list of witnesses is Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, who will presumably demand to know if Kagan is a dirty “softball player.” Here’s the list of minority witnesses (SCOTUS-speak for those opposed to confirmation), all of whom are scheduled to appear later this week. Robert Alt, Senior Fellow, …

The U.S. Supreme Court has just ruled that anti-gay activists in Washington state MUST make public the names on Referendum 71. Protect Marriage wanted to keep the names secret, claiming they feared retribution from “violent homofascists.” The ruling (PDF) was 8-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting. Justices ruled in a case called Doe V. Reed. They heard oral arguments in …

Duncan Osbourne of Gay City News has uncovered some troubling history from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. From Osbourne’s blog, Herd & Scene: Despite knowing that religious freedom laws could invalidate state and local anti-discrimination statutes that protect bisexual, lesbian, transgender, and gay taxpayers, Elena Kagan, a nominee to the US Supreme Court, championed such laws in her later years …

“Could it be that [Elana] Kagan is ex-gay? That would explain the White House insistence on Kagan’s heterosexuality and Kagan’s silence about her past sexual preference. As an ex-gay myself, I sympathize with Kagan and the Obama administration. I have had to face taunts, threats, and phone calls to my employer demanding that I be fired. There is no hate …

The lesbian bit about Elana Kagan is pretty cute.

A right-wing student group called Young America’s Foundation has named today “Keep Out Kagan Day” in their phone campaign to prevent the Supreme Court appointment of Elena Kagan because of her opposition to DADT while dean of Harvard Law School. Evan Gassman, a spokesman for YAF, explains there are a multitude of reasons why these groups are fighting this nomination. …

Almost all of the states have signed onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, asking that military funerals be protected from the likes of the Phelps clan. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in support of a father who sued anti-gay protesters over their demonstration at the 2006 funeral of …

“Whereas every liberal hack on the planet tripped over one another to demand Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Ted Haggard and, most recently, George Rekers divulge the most intimate details of their own bizarre (allegedly) sexual appetites, with Kagan, they’ve suddenly lost interest. Although the mainstream media refuse to do their job, some in the homosexual-activist press are stepping-up to fill …

“It should be frightening not only to the majority of Americans who still affirm that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, but especially disturbing to those whose views on homosexuality are the result of an orthodox view of the Bible which clearly characterizes homosexual conduct as sinful. It should also be alarming for those of us who live in the 45 …

“Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation is the subject of much discussion in blogs and mainstream newspapers. The White House response denied Ms. Kagan is a lesbian. Instead, shouldn’t the White House have denounced the speculation and conveyed that such inquiries are improper? By denying she is lesbian instead of denouncing the inquiry, the White House is implicitly stating sexual …