Suspect Symbols: The Literary Argument For Heightened Scrutiny For Gays - Kenji Yoshino - November 1996 | 96 Colum. L. Rev. 1753

This Article can be read as a response to a question a federal appellate judge asked me. During a clerkship interview, the judge inquired about a course on my transcript subtitled "Queer Theory." I told him it was a course on legal, political, and sociological theories of sexual orientation and mapped some of its themes. He listened attentively, then stated: "Actually, what I wanted to know was what the word queer' means." Quick to rationalize authority, I assumed he knew what the word meant, and was attempting to gauge the subtlety of my understanding of it. So I responded: "My understanding is that it's a term once used in a derogatory way towards homosexuals that has been co-opted by the gay-rights movement, like the pink triangle." 1 I was about to continue, when he interrupted: "What's the pink triangle?" A beat. I replied: "The pink triangle was used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to designate homosexuals." The judge said: "I didn't know that." Photo

I knew that the judge recently had heard a controversial case considering whether gays should be accorded heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore assumed he had a certain modicum of cultural literacy about gays. 2 My immediate reaction to his question about the word "queer" was to interpret it as a test given by a teacher. When he asked about the pink triangle, I could no longer sustain the illusion…

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Gay Civil Rights Movement

The Relationship Between ASSIMILATION and DISCRIMINATION | COVERING

by Kenji Yoshino,

December 31, 2001 – The Yale Law Journal Online

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2011/01/gay-civil-rights-movement-relationship.html

Kenji Yoshino

Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law

New York University School of Law


40 Washington Square South, 501


New York, NY 10012 

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THE GAY TIPPING POINT - 

by Kenji Yoshino, UCLA Law Review Vol. 57, Issue 5 (June 2010) | “PREJUDICE AGAINST DISCRETE AND INSULAR MINORITIES”

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2011/01/gay-tipping-point-by-kenji-yoshino-ucla.html

Groundbreaking Study Finds Family Acceptance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Adolescents Protects Against Depression, Substance Abuse and Suicidal Behavior in Early Adulthood – by Caitlin Ryan, PhD, December 6, 2010 - FAMILY ACCEPTANCE PROJECT.

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/12/groundbreaking-study-finds-family.html

Know thyself – Plato  John Paul II

This above all: to thine own self be true, 
 And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. - Luke 6:40-42

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_15101998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

GAY YOUTH SUICIDE | BENEDICT XVI & BISHOPS Child Sexual Abuse Cover-ups – Negligence Protecting (1) Children & (2) LGBT Children | Family of Rutgers suicide victim lends name to bill – November 19, 2010 – CNN  Photo

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Gay Marriage - WITCH HUNTS ->The Crucible (1996) -> McCarthyism 1940’s -1950’s, -> Benedict XVI 2005

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/09/witch-hurts-crucible-1996-mccarthyism.html

30 years of Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’s - Directives To Hierarchy – To make - THREATS, SILENCE, HARM AND DISPOSAL of Catholic Personnel Supportive of LGBT Adults and Children

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/11/30-years-of-ratzingerbenedict-xvis.html

What you cannot do is accept injustice.

From Hitler – or anyone.

You must make the injustice visible – be prepared to die like a soldier to do so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!