Bush Judge Nominee Called 'Most Anti-Gay In Memorable History'

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/04/042605pryor.htm

there's just too much info for a few paragraph blurb to do this thread any justice

go read the article

I knew he was bad but not this bad!

[Roland99]

1. Day-um

While in his temporary position on the court Pryor cast the deciding vote to uphold Florida's outright ban on gay adoption. (story) Florida is the only state in the country that explicitly bans children from being adopted by gays and lesbians.

As Attorney General of Alabama, he was the only attorney general outside of Texas to author an amicus brief in the Supreme Court defending Texas's anti-gay sodomy statute. Pryor argued that states have an interest in singling out same-sex relations for punishment, even though his own state's statute made no distinction between same-and opposite-sex relations. His brief also compared same-sex relationships to pedophilia, bestiality and necrophilia.

While he served at A.G. of Alabama Pryor had links placed on the state website to anti-gay organizations and other conservative groups but not to groups with a neutral or differing views.

What a fair-minded individual. Always looking out for that 14th Amendment.

[BOSSHOG]

2. He's a perfect representative of Christian Conservatism

And the religious zealots would like more of him making decisions effecting the lives of Americans.

[swimmernsecretsea]

5. I quite agree...

a bland robot who reprocesses the ultra-conservative mindstamp. Great. Guess we've got even more work to do.

I hope there's no doubt here as to Bush's intentions, now.

[marmar]

3. You've got to give it to Bush...

He never fails to find the scariest possible nominee for any post.

:scared:

[xchrom]

4. quelle surprize!

uh -- not really.

[TaleWgnDg]

6. Wm H Pryor Jr is one of the worst of the worst of the GWBush . . .

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William H. Pryor, Jr. is one of the worst of the worst of GWBush's . . . federal judicial nominees:

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Who is William H. Pryor, Jr.?

"I will never forget January 22, 1973, the day seven members of our highest court ripped the Constitution and ripped out the life of millions of unborn children," Pryor commenting about Roe v. Wade (1973) . . . Pryor states he agrees with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia that "the Constitution says nothing about a right to abortion."

Pryor has urged Congress to consider getting rid of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, which protects the right to vote for African-Americans. While testifying before a Congressional Committee, Pryor urged the Committee to "consider seriously . . . the repeal or amendment of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which (he labeled an) affront to federalism ("states rights") and an expansive burden that has far outlived its usefulness."

In 1995, as a Deputy Attorney General of Alabama, Pryor and then-Attorney General of Alabama Jeff Sessions joined an amicus brief in support of the state of Colorado's defense of a voter initiative that prohibited local governments from enacting laws protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination (Romer v. Evans). Explaining why his office felt compelled to join the brief, Pryor stated: "The Attorney General of Alabama felt strongly that we don't need to be finding new rights in our Constitution (because) we've done enough of that in recent years."

As Alabama's Attorney General, Pryor filed an amicus brief in the Lawrence v. Texas case, which has yet to be decided and is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging Texas's sodomy law. Two states joined Alabama's amicus brief in support of sodomy laws. Nine states with such laws on their books did not file briefs to defend their laws. Pryor's brief likens homosexuality to incest, necrophilia *, pedophilia, prostitution and adultery. He fails to recognize homosexual individuals as people worthy of the same constitutional rights and protections that other Americans take for granted.

Pryor had no state duty and nothing in law that forced Pryor as Deputy Attorney General and as Attorney General of Alabama to file amici briefs in either the Colorado case of Romer v. Evans or the Texas case of Lawrence v. Texas. These are voluntary acts in which Pryor (as a state officer) demonstrated his personal views and his inability to remove ideology from matters of law.

Pryor has also defended a state judge's sponsorship of Christian prayers before jury assemblies.

* necrophilia: (1) Obsessive fascination with death and corpses, and (2) Erotic attraction to or sexual contact with corpses. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=necrophilia&db=* (as last visited June 23, 2003)

- TaleWgnDg (Spring, 2003)

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(I've removed most of the hyperlinks to cites and other resources.)
The "Jeff Sessions" to whom I refer (above) is none other than the present http://www.independentjudiciary.com/senate/bio.cfm?SenatorID=152">U.S. Senator Sessions (Republican) from Alabama!! Both Sessions and Pryor are birds of a feather; however, Pryor is more out-spoken than is Sessions.



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