Bush A.G. Nominee Linked To Anti-Gay Amendment

[davidinalameda]

looks like all the skeletons are gonna be coming out on Gonzales

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/010505agHearing.htm

Senate Democrats want answers from the man nominated by President Bush to be Attorney General. Senate confirmation hearings for White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales will begin Thursday amid allegations Gonzales secretly helped write the Federal Marriage Amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

The American Civil Liberties Union said on Wednesday that Gonzales' White House office undertook the legal thinking behind Bush's decision to support the amendment and helped formulate the legal framework for it and for the president’s "faith-based initiative" which would allow faith groups to circumvent local laws which prevent discrimination against gay and lesbian workers.

In discussing the administration’s consideration of the Federal Marriage Amendment, Bush announced in August 2003 that he had assigned "lawyers" to examine the different legislative approaches to banning same-sex marriage. "Although President Bush did not identify Gonzales as one of the assigned lawyers, the Senate Judiciary Committee ought to explore Gonzales’s role on the issue," the ACLU said in a statement Wednesday.

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. but HE is gay

[azndndude]

2. Self Denial Just like Rep. Sen Drier of CA

[kweerwolf]

3. Gonzales is gay?

Oh puh-leeeeeze! Isn't it bad enough that we get saddled with self-loathing closet queens like J. Edna Hoover and Roy Cohn? Please don't foist another one off on us unless you're willing to take Richard Simmons!

[Deja Q]

4. Where's the proof?