Televangelist Pat Robertson asks
whether Justice Anthony Kennedy has gay clerks.
Kennedy wrote the Supreme Court's
majority decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),
which prohibited federal agencies from recognizing the legal
marriages of gay and lesbian couples. DOMA, Kennedy wrote, inflicts
an “injury and indignity” on gay couples so severe that it denies
“an essential part of the liberty protected by the Fifth
Amendment,” and was motivated by a “bare congressional desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.”
In the course of interviewing Jay
Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice,
Robertson asked whether the decision may have been influenced by gay
clerks.
“Let me ask you about Anthony
Kennedy. Does he have some clerks that happen to be … gays?”
Robertson asked on The 700 Club.
“Oh, I have no idea,” Sekulow
answered. (The video is embedded on this page. Visit
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