Kagan and Shariah

Supreme court nominee displays selective moral outrage
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faces new questions about her stance on the U.S. military, just 10 days before confirmation hearings are scheduled to begin. Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, wants to know why Ms. Kagan was strangely silent about big money Harvard accepted from a questionable source while she served as the law school's dean.

Ms. Kagan apparently made no public objection to a $20 million gift from a Saudi prince in late 2005, even though Saudi Arabia's shariah law provided flogging or death as punishment for any individual caught engaging in homosexual activity. College lecturer Richard Cravatts captured the controversy at the time in Harvard Law's independent newspaper when he wrote that the school should not be accepting millions from "a member of the ruling family of a repressive, totalitarian, sexist theocracy."

Mr. Cravatts cited the "moral irony" of the school taking the money while at the same time pursuing Ms. Kagan's policy of denying military recruiters access to the official campus Office of Career Services. the rest