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Originally posted by bilmore
I do know that he submitted a brief in one case that was horribly, hatefully homophobic, (and I've also seen evidence suggesting that that was his specific assignment), but that's about all I know. And I know I've had to submit briefs that do not exactly mirror my own philosophies in the past, so I can't just automaticaly buy into the idea that he submitted his own beliefs in that brief.
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I question whether, when a State's Attorney General is an elected official (rather than a cabinet appointee of a Governor) -- which I believe to be the case in Alabama -- the Attorney General ever receives "specific assignments" or in a practical sense even truly works for the Governor.
Also -- given Judge Pryor's publicly-avowed devout religious beliefs and his vehement opposition to abortion, there seems to be little reason to doubt that his decision to file an amicus brief in Lawrence v. Texas urging that Texas' anti-sodomy law be upheld (which brief was joined only by two other states) reflected his own opinions and desire to protect Alabama's anti-sodomy law.
I also see no reason to doubt that the language of the brief written by his office, which apparently argued that if one could not forbid homosexual sex, then one also could not forbid necrophilia, pedophilia, beastiality, etc., etc. reflects his own (mistaken) beliefs -- unless you think the Governor was editing over his shoulder.
S_A_M
