Miers A Gay Rights Supporter

Now if this doesn't throw the christian taliban that is the Conservative Christian Right like Dobson and Robertson into total spasm nothing will. From the Associated Press 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. Meirs filled out a questionaire sent out by the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas when she was running for Dallas City Council, and even though she claimed she was not seeking their endorsement, attended a coalition meeting to answer questions during the campaign. One of the questions on the survey was "Do you believe that gay men and lesbians should have the same civil rights as non-gay men and women?" Miers answered "Yes". Louise Young, a founding member of the coalition, which later merged with another group, remembered when Miers came to the organization's screening of council candidates. "We weren't really pleased with her responses, although they weren't all bad," Young said. "I just wondered why she was here, because she didn't seem to be the typical officeholder who was supportive of our equal rights." "Usually, if you bothered to come, you wanted our endorsement," Young said. "She came to talk to us anyway. I thought that was very odd." Young added, "She didn't seem like a right-wing nut or anything like that." Not a wing-nut indeed. But I can guarantee that the current crop of wing-nuts holding the Republican Pary hostage will definitely rear its' ugly head when this story picks up traction in the press.