Last year, we detailed how WorldNetDaily gave a cowardly attorney hiding behind the “pen name” of Frank J. Bleckwenn a platform to falsely attack Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Guess who’s back?
Yes, “Bleckwenn” has returned to hurl more cowardly bile in a July 15 WND column. This time, he’s freaking about an impending confirmation vote on “the nation’s first openly homosexual federal judge,” J. Paul Oetken. “Bleckwenn” asserts that “A vote to confirm this nominee is in effect a vote to subject New York by force of judicial fiat to the homosexual agenda, lock, stock, and barrel.”
Among the reasons “Bleckwenn” lists to oppose his nomination is that he’s gay:
Oetken, like Vaughn Walker, would be an “out gay” man. In fact, he would be the first “out gay” to be put on the federal courts.
Being an unabashedly “out gay” says some important things. For one thing, Oetken considers sodomizing/being sodomized by a man to be normal, and in fact he personally finds the idea attractive. As Oetken wrote in his Supreme Court brief in Lawrence v. Texas, “what is fundamental to the nature of homosexuals … is that they desire a sexual and emotional attachment to a person of the same gender …” For another, he thinks sexual proclivities of this sort are something to be unashamed of. And, crucially for his potential role as a judge, Oetken necessarily rejects millennia of teachings on sexual morality that condemn sodomitical acts and reserve sexuality for a married man and woman.
Oetken’s homosexuality on the sleeve approach, combined with his resume’s track record, leave no doubt of the biased worldview he would bring to any case dealing with aspects of the sexual revolution, same sex “marriage” or the homosexual agenda. Furthermore, as someone who rejects traditional sexual values, he is likely as well to harbor animosity toward the proponents of traditional sexual morality, deeming as “bigots” any churches and synagogues – or their members – that adhere to the traditional understanding of man-woman relations.
We’ve already seen what a practicing homosexual federal judge with no paper trail did with the marriage issue (Judge Vaughn Walker in the Prop 8 case). Do we want to subject New York to a new Judge Walker – this time, one unabashedly, demonstrably committed to the same activist goals? Is this what our senators are prepared to inflict on the country?
If we wrote such tripe that is not only hateful but arguably illegally discriminatory as well — suggesting that he’s a horrible lawyer — we’d hide behind a fake name just like “Bleckwenn.”
Of course, WND editor Joseph Farah has said that anonymous sources are “usually quotes made up out of whole cloth to help make the story read better.” The same goes for its columnists too, it seems.