After accusing President Obama of acting like a “despot” over his support of gay-rights, Mario Diaz of Concerned Women for America now claims that Democratic Senators are introducing “homosexual quotas” for judicial nominations. Currently there are two openly gay federal judges, both are women nominated by President Clinton.
Diaz says that Democrats care more about judges’ “sexual preferences” than their judicial philosophies, but at the same time maintains that Democrats only want judges who have a “radically liberal philosophy.” Since Obama has nominated J. Paul Oetken, who would be the first openly gay male federal judge, Diaz thinks the Democrats’ end-game is to “force men dressed as women down your throat.” Diaz writes:
Liberal Democrats have formed a strong allegiance with the lesbian, “gay,” bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. President Obama is doing everything in his power to promote their agenda throughout all areas of government, and the judiciary is no exception.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said recently he “was shocked to learn there were no openly gay male judges on the entire federal bench,” so liberals have set out on a crusade to rectify that, effectively implementing homosexual quotas.
I say “homosexual quotas,” because that is the extent of their “commitment” for now. Although they talk about the LGBT community, they are not quite prepared to force men dressed as women down your throat … yet.
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Meanwhile, undeterred by his embarrassing episode with Alter, Schumer continued his search for a new “openly homosexual” candidate of his own. In this instance, otherwise qualified candidates need not apply. If you were not “gay,” you did not meet his criteria. So he searched until he finally found someone. He recommended, and the president nominated, Paul Oetken (an even more in-your-face homosexual activist) to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Oetken’s resumé includes a brief for the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association that helped bring about the Lawrence v. Texas sodomy decision at the Supreme Court. Schumer noted that Oetken is “a strong advocate” for the LGBT community and felt he needed to mention his work for the radically liberal Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union. He has also written in favor of physician-assisted suicide.
Apparently, those are all great qualifications for a judgeship in the minds of Sen. Schumer and President Obama. Oetken’s hearing was on March 16. Seeing the way liberal Democrats treat judicial nominations, one can understand why they are pushing for a process that would exclude a nominee’s judicial philosophy from consideration. Apparently, the issue of judicial philosophy pales against the far weightier consideration of the nominee’s sexual preferences.
