Lone Star conservatives are upset over GOP's choice of out candidate
Some Texas conservatives are upset that one of the two candidates for U.S. attorney for San Antonio that were submitted to the White House by the state's Republican U.S. senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, is openly gay. According to Cornyn's spokesman: "A person's sexuality has no bearing on his qualifications for a job. ... It's just not even remotely considered."
Dallas Morning News, The | 11/01
This story published in Gay & Lesbian Leadership SmartBrief on 11/03/2009
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