Comments on: US marshal pick was already gay rights pioneer

By: Curtis Parillon

Curtis Parillon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:58:39 +0000

Very Interesting.

By: bobweekend

bobweekend — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:39:56 +0000

What if, I know this may be a stretch, just imagine if you will that SGT Lubinski actually is the best person for the job. And that this appointment has nothing to do with who she loves?

It is a good thing that the administration did not hold that against her.

When I voted from Obama I did so because I believed he was the better candidate (and Sara just gave me the willies) not because he would be the first non-white president.

First what ever is news, but journalist please try and focus on the important aspects of the story not just first x trait to do something.
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Who am I describing.

Supreme Court Justice
Helped give W the 2000 election
Swore in W’s buddy Alberto Gonzales
Helped over turn Gun-Free School Zones Act
wrote a concurring opinion contending that state laws that prohibited homosexual sodomy, but not heterosexual sodomy, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

You figure it out yet?
First woman on the Supreme Court

I bet you know now.

I would hope, provided Lubinski gets the appointment, that she will be known for her accomplishments vs. Just being known for being the first out marshal

By: Gerry Fisher

Gerry Fisher — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:26:44 +0000

When Cleve makes comments like that, I see it as an effective political tactic to maintain pressure on the president to do more. I get it, and I’m OK with it. I can even support some of it.

However, when you look at it from the broadest possible angle of what it’s going to take to advance the status of LGBT people in the USA, his parsing of these events into “good progress” and “bad progress” is unhelpful…it all matters. I’ll take every bit of progress, visibility, and representation I can get, because it lays the groundwork for things like legislation and policy change.

By: Yhitzak

Yhitzak — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:20:30 +0000

I think this story and appointment highlight the very thing that GLBT people have been looking for: acknowledgement for skills and abilities and NOT exemplification OR vilification for being gay or trans. Good for Sergeant Lubinski, her crews, her districts, and the rest of the nation. I certainly hope that this appointment will help bring equality to the fore. Seems like in some ways, Sergeant Lubinski already has. Keep up the good work!