Posted on 07/21/2005 8:59:31 PM PDT by nwrep
Marcus Hurn, spokesman for the New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Rights, said yesterday that "if national gay organizations oppose Judge Souter, I'll go to Washington and testify for him." Hurn, who is a professor at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, said the group was encouraged by a New Hampshire Supreme Court advisory opinion that found portions of a proposed law unconstitutional. The law would have prevented homosexuals from becoming foster parents, adoptive parents or day care providers.
Supreme Court nominee Judge David H. Souter and three of his colleagues said that while the state could exclude categories of people from being foster or adoptive parents, "other kinds of private and public employment did not involve the same special responsibilities," Hunt said. "And then they went farther and said there could be no provision to outlaw gay and lesbian teachers."
"They put a very firm limit on right-wing attacks on gay people in New Hampshire," Hurn said.
Local abortion rights activists, in a stance similar to their national affiliates, said they wanted to know more about Souter's position on abortion.
I've always suspected Souter to be a little light in the loafers himself.
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