Apologies for the delay, but the following is the posting that Andrew Sullivan wrote this morning shortly after the Harriet Miers nomination was announced, apparently under the mistaken belief that Miers had supported an anti-gay group:

Stop right there. Exodus Ministries?…It’s the biggest far-right, extremist anti-gay group in the world, dedicated to “curing” gay people of their sexual orientation. The group is abhorred by every mainstream psychological organization; the very notion of “curing” gay people is rejected even by Benedict XVI’s church; and the nomination is therefore yet another brutal attack on the dignity of gay people by this administration. But it will please the extremist religious right no end. By putting forward a nominee for the Supreme Court who believes that homosexuality is a choice, that it can be cured, and that only Jesus Christ can cure it, this president has now even upped his support for the anti-marriage federal amendment. I have to say that, even after the last few years of amazement at the Bush administration’s hostility to gay people, I never thought it would come to this. And this, I think is one key to unlocking the reason for Miers’ nomination: it’s Karl Rove’s way of re-igniting the culture war, of once again using the gay issue to polarize the country, and rally his base. When these people are in a hole, they look to demonize a minority. The Southern strategy is back. But now, it’s not blacks who are being used; it’s gays.

As it turned out, Exodus Ministries is a Texas group that helps ex-convicts; Sullivan apparently thought it was Exodus International, which purports to “cure” gays. Upon learning which was which, Sullivan wrote, “Phew. My apologies for the sudden panic and hastily revised post.”