Update: My current take-if she's against
excessive business regulation (and she appears to be) and has no
anti-gay record (despite her sodomy law stance, she wasn't anti-gay
on the Dallas council), then she may be the best we're likely to
get. Sure, I'd prefer a libertarian like Judge Janice Rogers Brown,
but she'd never get through the senate - social conservatives would
be lukewarm, and the left would demonize her like nothing you've
ever seen. So we have Miers. And the fact that the anti-gay social
conservative pundits like
Bill Kristol are up in arms doesn't exactly bother me. Another
positive: James Dobson is
pulling back on his initial support.
--Stephen H. Miller
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An AP account takes a
thorough look at the available evidence regarding Supreme Court
nominee Harriet Miers' views on gays, including her support (in
1989, while running for the Dallas city council) for maintaining
the Texas sodomy law. It also recounts the view of a Dallas gay
activist who says that when Miers served on the council, "She
wasn't what we call a right-wing nut. My impression was that she
was not one to be rabid against us."
Time.com has a pdf of the questionnaire she filled out for the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of Dallas, a group she agreed to meet with while making clear she wasn't seeking their endorsement.
The Blade has more:
In Miers' meeting with members of the gay group...she opposed abortion, a response that prompted the group to eliminate her from contention for obtaining the group's endorsement.
Note: it was not her support for the sodomy law!
Blogger Tom Scharbach gives his take.
It will be interesting to hear her testimony at the confirmation hearings.
Further: For what it's worth, from D Magazine
(Dallas)'s FrontBurner
blog, elucidating on Miers' one-word response ("No") when asked
if she supported sodomy law repeal.
--Stephen H. Miller