Gay rights groups on Wednesday introduced former Attorney General Mike Bowers as a new and unlikely ally in their fight to stop passage of legislation they say will use religion as an excuse to discriminate—a move that prompted eight legislator lawyers to dismiss Bowers’ critique of the bills as “shameless.”
Bowers, who as AG successfully defended a state law criminalizing consensual sodomy and once rescinded a job offer to a lesbian lawyer, issued a legal broadside against two bills that he said are intended to discriminate against “disfavored groups,” including same-sex couples who want to marry.
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