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Tuesday's edition of the Wall Street Journal had a photo of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan at 17-years-old playing softball at the University of Chicago. The headline read 'Court Nominee Comes to the Plate.' The picture and headline sparked controversy throughout the nation and syracuse.com users had a lot to say. Some said that the picture is just a picture, others said that it took a dig at Kagan's sexual orientation. Here's what syracuse.com user BlueInk had to say:
"It is irritating to see how some can take an innocuous photo which suggests absolutely nothing, and somehow "make something" out of it such as making it an "issue about orientation". It only becomes such an issue because GLADD made it an issue.To everyone else who doesn't think the way GLADD does, it is just a photo of a woman in a baseball stance with a caption which makes an allegorical reference to her potential supreme court challenges.
It is no different than people who take a news story and start trumping the race card on it when the rest of humanity never considered race a factor to begin with."
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