Miers Backed Gay Civil Rights but Not Repeal of Texas Sodomy Law

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBFU0GFDEE.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers went on record favoring equal civil rights for gays when she ran for Dallas city council, and she said the city had a responsibility to pay for AIDS education and patient services.

But Miers opposed repeal of the Texas sodomy statute - a law later overturned by the court on which she will sit if confirmed - in a survey she filled out for a gay-rights group during her successful 1989 campaign.

The survey by the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas provides a hint of Miers' thinking on homosexual rights issues that could come before the court. Although she came to a coalition meeting to answer questions during the campaign, she said at the time that she was not seeking its endorsement.

The Supreme Court struck down the prohibition on consensual homosexual sex in 2003 on a 6-3 vote. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whom Miers is nominated to replace, voted with the majority.

[Charlie Brown]

1. The religious nuts WILL NOT like this

Ohhh, it will be very humorous if a few of the wackos like Sessions and DeMint end up voting against Miers.

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2. So wait. She is for gay civil rights, but not freedom of privacy?

What on earth does that mean? I have the right to not be fired for being gay, but if my employer reports me to the police for committing sodomy, then I get arrested? Okay, well, once I'm a felon, THEN can the employer fire me???

So Miers says I can be gay without harrassment, except for when the cops invade my bedroom?

And she is pro-AIDS funding? Well, that's mighty big of her.

Sheesh.

[beyurslf]

3. But I bet she is against teaching kids how to use condoms or god forbid`

giving the kids the condoms...