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Bush took stance on Texas sodomy law in 1994
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 02, 2003 02:44pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jul 02, 2003 12:00am |
| Description | The White House executed some fancy footwork when the Supreme Court last week issued rulings striking down a Texas law forbidding sodomy.
Bush's press secretary, Ari Fleischer, has labored to distance the administration from the Texas case.
''The administration did not file a brief in this case, unlike in the Michigan case, and this is now a state matter,'' Fleischer said when asked for Bush's opinion on whether gay men have the legal right to sexual relations in private.
When Senator Rick Santorum, Republican from Pennsylvania, caused a furor by speaking out on the sodomy case in April, Fleischer had said, ''We also have no comment on anything that involves any one person's interpretation of the legalities of an issue that may be considered before the court.''
In fact, Bush has expressed a firm opinion on the Texas sodomy law that the court ruled unconstitutional. He supported it. |
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