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	William Pryor Jr., defends his record as Alabama attorney general last month during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider his nomination to be judge of the 11th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

WASHINGTON -- Here are some of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor's more controversial publicly stated positions. He says they are personal views and that, as a state attorney general, he has shown that he can put them aside while doing his job.

Staunch opposition to abortion as immoral and to the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision allowing it as "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law" in the United States.

Calls the Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas law against homosexual acts wrong and says it will invite "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia."

Supports public display of the Ten Commandments on government property.

Calls the Voting Rights Act provision requiring Justice Department pre-approval for changes in voting procedures or jurisdictions "an affront to federalism and an expensive burden that has far outlived its usefulness."

Was delighted with the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that made George W. Bush the presidential election winner in 2000, so that the new president would appreciate the importance of the judiciary and not be tempted to appoint more justices with the philosophy of Justice David Souter. The opinions and stances taken by Souter, appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bush's father, have caused him to be a major disappointment for conservatives.

Wants the federal government to step away from environmental, employment, criminal defendant protection and education regulations, saying those issues should be handled by the states.

Successfully argued in Garrett v. Alabama that key remedies in the Americans with Disabilities Act do not apply to state employees because the Constitution protects states from such lawsuits.