Quiz hints at Miers' views on gay rights

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Nominee answered questions during 1989 political campaign

October 5, 2005

(CNN) -- U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers gave mixed answers on same-sex rights in a questionnaire she filled out from a Texas gay rights group during her successful 1989 run for the Dallas City Council.

She told the group she believed gay men and lesbians should have the same civil rights as straight Americans, but that she opposed repeal of the state's sodomy law criminalizing same-sex sexual conduct.

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Texas questionnaire

During her campaign for a seat on the Dallas City Council, Miers filled out a questionnaire from the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of Dallas and interviewed with the group, according to Louise Young, a founding member who kept a copy in the now-defunct organization's archives.

"I remember her screening quite well. I remembered before I found the questionnaire that some of her answers were, so to speak, 'good' -- it was a good answer to believe in civil rights," Young said.

Even so, Miers declined to seek the group's endorsement, which Young said she found "very odd."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/04/miers/index.html?section=cnn_us


Mmm, so even though Miers has never been a judge, it seems there is some public record of her beliefs. I wonder what else is out there?