My only reaction to the Harriet Miers nomination is to be underwhelmed but not to see any obvious red flags. But I was amused by the Exodus Ministries flap. When President Bush mentioned the voluntary organizations that Miers is affiliated with, one was Exodus Ministries, which caused some blogosphere commotion until it was clarified that Exodus Ministries is a Christian outreach program that helps prisoners get their lives together, and has no relationship with Exodus International, the so-called "ex-gay" group. The other interesting factoid is that because she is middle-aged and unmarried, she is already, without any evidence, being labeled a closet case by some "liberals."
Update: Andrewsullivan.com passes along a
tidbit from the online New Republic that Meirs apparently
submitted a report to the American Bar Association's House of
Delegates that including this recommendation:
Supports the enactment of laws and public policy which provide that sexual orientation shall not be a bar to adoption when the adoption is determined to be in the best interest of the child....
But no matter; she will refuse to promise to support Roe v.
Wade, and so gay activists will oppose her.
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