The Log Cabin Republicans break with the Bush administration and
oppose the nomination of William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of
Appeals. As they note in their
press statement, Pryor:
authored an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court defending Texas's discriminatory [sodomy] statute.... Mr. Pryor's brief compared same-sex relationships to pedophilia, bestiality, and necrophilia.... In Lawrence v. Texas, Justice Anthony Kennedy - who was appointed by President Reagan - dismissed as "demeaning" the arguments that Mr. Pryor made before the Court.
Once again, LCR (the only gay political lobby that refused to endorse a presidential candidate who supported constitutional amendments banning gay marriage) shows more independence than the slavishly partisan Democratic gay lobbies, among which I include the Human Rights Campaign.
On the other hand, one Bush judicial nominee who doesn't deserve the bad rap she's getting from "progressives" (gay and otherwise) is California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown. As I've argued before, her ruling in a gay adoption case has been so willfully distorted it's slanderous. Now, columnist Nat Hentoff (who is no Republican) takes a look at how the NAACP and others are misrepresenting her record on racial equality in the same manner.
The one thing liberal advocacy groups can't abide is a black or
Latino (or gay) Republican, even those who, unlike William Pryor,
are not intolerant bigots.