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By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press Writer
October 3, 2005, 8:23 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – 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.
But Miers opposed repeal of the Texas sodomy statute – a law later overturned by the court on which she will sit if confirmed – in a survey she filled out for a gay-rights group during her successful 1989 campaign.
nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-miers-gay-rights,0,3457853.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
Associated Press Writer
October 3, 2005, 8:23 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – 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.
But Miers opposed repeal of the Texas sodomy statute – a law later overturned by the court on which she will sit if confirmed – in a survey she filled out for a gay-rights group during her successful 1989 campaign.
nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-miers-gay-rights,0,3457853.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines