Just how gay IS Judge Roberts?

[Ian David]

1) Judge John Roberts did pro-bono work for gay rights

Roberts Helped Block Colorado's Anti-Gay Measure
http://www.nysun.com/article/18115

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2) Worked as a lobbyist for the cosmetics industry (and lied about it).

Roberts Failed to Disclose Lobbyist Work
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/roberts5e_20050805.htm

Roberts omits stint with cosmetics group
http://tinyurl.com/cvl7b

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3) Adopted two children under possibly questionable circumstances. Lots of gay men do that, you know. S

NY Times Confirms Roberts Adoption Inquiry
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/4/225949.shtml

Closet liberals
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d50a3dce-0489-11da-a775-00000e2511c8.html

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4) Have you seen how he dresses his kids? Pastel Liederhosen?

Judge John Roberts’ 1950s Family
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/11409

Photos:
http://tinyurl.com/drcyt
http://tinyurl.com/9kpcg

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5) Roberts' wife is a feminist.

Nominee's Wife Is A Feminist After Her Own Heart
http://tinyurl.com/7u7qc

I married a feminist
http://tinyurl.com/c6zom

[wli]

1. blackmailability (e.g. closeted homosexuality) is a serious concern

The question should be raised in a more serious context.

ON EDIT: If he's got a secret, e.g. is a closet case, he needs to either come out of the closet or get out of the business of public policy.

[Brian_Expat]

8. This is the same logic that gave us anti-gays-in-the-military. n/t

[wli]

11. no, it's not. It's the closet that's the issue, not gayness.

i.e. come out of the closet or FOAD.

[aquart]

2. Define "feminist."

She's a feminist against abortion. Sounds like a front group for Republican women who are so kidding themselves.

[JDPriestly]

9. Protected daughter of privilege

who never had to fight for anything. Young women have no idea what it was like growing up in the '50s and '60s. You had three choices, teaching, nursing or secretarial work. Realizing in college in the early '60s that I really did not want to teach, I thought about switching my major from music education to music business and did not because it would have been too shocking. My parents would have been furious because what in the world would a woman do with a business degree. I could not let them down by pursuing such a frivolous route. Of course, nowadays, no one would think a thing about it if a woman got a business degree.

I'll never forget our Catholic neighbor who gave her husband six babies in nearly as many of years while working HIS way through medical school at some menial job. -- Can you imagine? And as soon as he was finished with his education, he divorced her leaving her with the children. I've never figured out how anyone could do that. Ah the good old days when men were men and women were . . . . well, . . . . "protected."

[aquart]

12. I knew a girl who put her husband thru law school.

The day he passed the bar he made up divorce papers and brought them home for her to sign.

[JDPriestly]

13. How sick.

Lawyers have to pass a so-called character examination, at least in California, but, of course, it doesn't mean much.

[aquart]

14. It happened in Florida.

[kweerwolf]

3. Oh puh-leeeeez! You've seen his haircut ...

... strictly "Great Clips" with nary a sign of mousse abuse! It's like sooooooo 1988 that Roberts could never be confused with a gay man.

[Options Remain]

4. I would fall over dead laughing.

if Bush forces him in and three weeks later he comes out.

[wiley]

5. WTF?

"Adopted two children under possibly questionable circumstances. Lots of gay men do that, you know."

Do what,exactly? Adopt children, or adopt children under questionable circumstances?

These generalizations are really stunning. So what if the guy did like other men? He's not advertizing the fact if he does, which is what gets people all flipped out.

[Ian David]

6. Sorry, that sentence was un-clear. I didn't mean gays adopt questionably

I should be more clear.

Also, the entire post was meant tongue-in-cheek anyway.

Anyway, welcome to DU.

If you'd been here longer, you probably would have had a better idea of the context in which I'd meant that post.

[wiley]

7. Peace

:pals:

[SocialJustice18]

10. Please spare me

I know this guy is a conservative and how much it would hurt us in the long run if indeed he is voted into the Supreme Court. Should we really question the guy's sexuality just because he helped our fellow comrades in a case? Or that he worked on a case for cosmetics? We have no right to question his sexuality on the basis of adopting children. At least the children aren't in foster care right now.