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Kagan opposed military recruiters from being at Harvard because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy which attempted to prevent homosexual relations in the military. She characterized it as “a profound wrong—a moral injustice of the first order … a wrong that tears at the fabric of our own community, because some of our members cannot, while others can, devote their professional careers to their country.”<ref>[http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34854  FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 18, 2009]</ref>  
 
Kagan opposed military recruiters from being at Harvard because of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy which attempted to prevent homosexual relations in the military. She characterized it as “a profound wrong—a moral injustice of the first order … a wrong that tears at the fabric of our own community, because some of our members cannot, while others can, devote their professional careers to their country.”<ref>[http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34854  FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 18, 2009]</ref>  
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Some have charged Kagan with duplicity in this issue, for not opposing a $20 million from a prince in Saudi Arabia in 2005, a country in which homosexual acts are punishable by death or flogging." The funds were used to create the ''Center for Islamic Studies'' in honor of Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/16/senate-republican-accuses-kagan-staying-silent-saudi-gift-harvard/print ''Senate Republican Accuses Kagan of Staying Silent on Saudi Gift to Harvard']', Fox News, June 16, 2010</ref>
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Some have charged Kagan with duplicity in this issue, for not opposing a $20 million from a prince in Saudi Arabia in 2005, a country in which homosexual acts are punishable by death or flogging." The funds were used to create the ''Center for Islamic Studies'' in honor of Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/16/senate-republican-accuses-kagan-staying-silent-saudi-gift-harvard/print ''Senate Republican Accuses Kagan of Staying Silent on Saudi Gift to Harvard']', Fox News, June 16, 2010</ref>
    
Regarding [[Capital Punishment]], In her Solicitor general confirmation hearing, 2009, Kagan also stated, “I am fully prepared to argue, consistent with Supreme Court precedents, that the death penalty is constitutional.”<ref>http://documents.nytimes.com/elena-kagan-documents#document/p303</ref>
 
Regarding [[Capital Punishment]], In her Solicitor general confirmation hearing, 2009, Kagan also stated, “I am fully prepared to argue, consistent with Supreme Court precedents, that the death penalty is constitutional.”<ref>http://documents.nytimes.com/elena-kagan-documents#document/p303</ref>
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