Miers opposed AIDS non-discrimination laws

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers told a conservative Dallas group that she opposed legislation prohibiting discrimination in the workplace and accommodations for people with AIDS or "perceived to have AIDS," according to a newly released questionnaire she completed in her 1989 run for City Council there.

"Would you support an ordinance that would force businesses to hire persons with AIDS and those perceived to have AIDS?" the survey asks, and Miers checked "no."

She also indicated her opposition to any ordinance requiring "individual property owners and businesses to provide accommodations" to PWAs or "those perceived to have AIDS."

The questionnaire, responding to the Dallas Eagle Forum, is among documents submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee and was included on the Washington Post Web site today. The Post has not reported on her answers to the AIDS-related questions.

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