Posted on 10/28/2003 1:33:34 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Federal appellate nominee Claude Allen told a Senate committee Tuesday he didn't mean it as a slur against homosexuals when he used the word "queer" while working as a press aide to a conservative Republican senator.
Allen also said he was "conflicted" about the 1983 filibuster mounted by his then-boss, GOP Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, against a proposed federal holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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