Posted on 10/04/2005 9:38:35 AM PDT by mathprof
What kind of Supreme Court justice would Harriet Miers be? For anyone trying to assess her qualifications, analyze her philosophy and predict her behavior, Miers would seem to present a fairly blank slate. She has no judicial resume and hasn't left a long trail of noteworthy memos, briefs, oral argument transcripts or law journal articles.
Gay Rights
An indication of her stance on gay rights comes from this questionaire from the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of Dallas Miers filled out while running for the Dallas City Council in 1989. In it, she supported full civil rights for gays and lesbians and backed AIDS education programs for the city of Dallas.
Views on the Law
Elsewhere, a search for indications of her personal views and writing skills turned up two articles penned by Miers for the legal publication Texas Lawyer. They show a concern for the rule of law—and an emphasis on collegiality, compromise and determination
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Such views in 1989 were hardly mainstream in any party.
Ugh.
Heck... I back full civil rights for gays/lesbians/transgenders/whatever else there is.. What I don't support are any "special" rights for them. The goal is for us to ALL have the same rights, not assign any special category to one group or another. Her support is technically fine with me.
We all can be active in some way to address the social issues that foster criminal behavior, such as: lack of self-esteem or hope in some segments of our society, poverty, lack of health care (particularly mental health care), lack of education, and family dysfunction."
But....she's not saying the COURTS should be active...she's talking about individuals.
That's encouraging.
Oh, I agree. But I have a natural negative reaction to people who talk like liberals, even if in reality what they are saying is OK.
Drudge has the alarm flashing right now with this same article linked. headline reads:
HARRIET MIERS SUPPORTED FULL CIVIL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS; BACKED AIDS EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR CITY OF DALLAS
This does NOT make her any more palatable, in fact, it makes her quite the opposite.
Harry Reid likes her, her paper trail is skewing left, she donated to Gore (heard that on FNC and it was said by Kay Bailey Hutchison)....Miers is sounding more and more like Souter all the time.
like the right to vote, etc. Who doesn't?
Drudge, Kristol, Morris, and others know that there's gold in them there fools.
I agree. Of course, gays should receive full civil rights, they are human beings. Just not special rights for marriage, etc.
I would need more info than that to go against her.
They already have civil rights as post-natal human beings with a pulse. G/L civil rights are about special rights.
Sadly, pre-natal human beings with a pulse do not have any rights whatsoever according to the incredible invisible right to privacy hidden somewhere in the constititution. I'm more concerned about their rights, not the g/l community.
Ann Coulter just took apart President Bush's SCOTUS nominee on the air during her appearance on the Mike Rosen show here in Denver on 850am KOA. She called for listeners to write their senators to oppose the nomination. Wish you could have heard it!
share some quips with us?
This does not give me any confidence.
Crud! I'm in the Denver area. Missed it this morning.
Most good Christians would say the same thing: including, I would think, Chuck Colson.
"foster" does not equal "cause."
Shouldn't every citizen have "full civil rights", whatever that ambiguous term means? What is all the uproar about?
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