BUSH'S SUPREME COURT NOMINEE MIGHT
HAVE A GAY SKELETON IN THE CLOSET

Not that there's anything wrong with that. From the New York Daily News courtesy of Eschaton:

Lively court briefs

Amid the political hullabaloo surrounding white-bread Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, gay activist Michelangelo Signorile remembers a much more colorful candidate.

"There was a contender for the federal judiciary in the George W. Bush administration who I began receiving information ... about him making sexual advances on men in gyms in Washington and other cities," Signorile told us Friday. Immediately after sex, "he would ... go into a religious tirade and then tell them how morally wrong all this was. His record was really conservative."

Click here for the rest (and scroll down to the second item; this appears to be from a gossip column).

The real question here, if this homoerotic monkey business is true, is about whether Roberts is one of these socially conservative gay guys who inexplicably use their positions of power to attack gay rights. This is not without precedent: my guess is that the contradictory nature of the closeted gay conservative mind makes manifesting self-hatred as anti-gay policy rather appealing. Senate Democrats would do well to quiz Roberts about his views on gay rights, and if he agrees with the Supreme Court that homosexuals are a specific class of American citizen protected by the fourteenth amendment. And I'm sure the religious right would like to know what he thinks about hot gay sex, as well.


He sure does have a pretty mouth, don't he?

UPDATE: After re-reading the gossip piece and looking at the comments about it over at Eschaton, it's not clear that Signorile was talking about Roberts; it may have been somebody else. However, it's not clear that Signorile wasn't talking about Roberts, either. At any rate, it's enough to fuel speculation until there's some sort of clarification about it. God, I just love gossip.

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