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Friday, March 29, 2013

Kagan ’09: ‘There is No Federal Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage’

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. It’s 2009, and Elena Kagan is answering questions during her confirmation hearing for the position of Solicitor General within the Obama administration. According to William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, who posted this piece on March 25, this is what she had to say about gay marriage:
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 samesex marriage?

Answer: There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 11:54 PM

    there's no constitutional right to heterosexual marriage either

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  2. AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 at 1:29 AM

    So now she's a flip flopper?
    Go figure, say anything to be confirmed. Liberal POS.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 at 8:33 AM

    11:54 Exactly. It's a privilege, not a right.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 30, 2013 at 8:09 PM

    it's funny to me that the so-called party of freedom advocates for government interference into one of the most intimate decisions of an adult's life.

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