I was listening to Hugh Hewitt on my way home from work, and he was giving what-for to the skeptics about the Miers nomination. He played the President's nomination speech, and one of the ministries the President mentioned that Miers had contributed to stuck out for me.
He said "Exodus Ministries," and my thought was that the left-wing groups would go ballistic over that one. If Harriet Miers contributed to a ministry that helps gay people leave the gay lifestyle, that would be absolutely unacceptable to the gay absolutists.
As soon as I started typing this post, Brit Hume on Fox News mentioned that a liberal organization (I didn't catch the name) did that very thing, condemning Miers for opposition to gays.
Unfortunately, both this organization and I confused Exodus Ministries (which ministers to ex-offenders and their families) with Exodus International (which ministers to homosexuals). The organization that complained has apologized, according to Brit Hume's report.
I've looked onFoxNews, Google, and some of the SCOTUS-interested blogs, but haven't found a corroborating source for Brit Hume's story.
Meanwhile, here's an article (HT: ConfirmThem) about Harriet Miers' visit to a gay organization back in 1989, when she was running for a Dallas city council seat. Apparently she was mostly non-committal on the issue back then:
"Usually, if you bothered to come, you wanted our endorsement," [Louise] Young [of the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas] said. "She came to talk to us anyway. I thought that was very odd."
Young added, "She didn't seem like a right-wing nut or anything like that."
Miers checked off a box on the survey saying she was not seeing the group's endorsement. Young said she did not recall Miers taking anti-gay or pro-gay positions during her 1989-91 term.
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