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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, appearing on Meet the Press Sunday, explained that he doesn't believe being gay is a sin, but he said that, heterosexual or homosexual, "it's the various acts that people perform that are sinful." Giuliani, who signed domestic-partner legislation into law in 1998 when he was mayor of New York, has been consistently angling toward more conservative positions on gay issues to appease socially conservative Republicans. He has said he would appoint "strict constructionist" judges in the vein of justices Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court and has indicated he doesn't support civil unions if they are the equivalent of marriage.