Posted on 10/09/2005 9:31:33 AM PDT by freedomdefender
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, accompanied by her brother and other members of her family, attended services at an Episcopal church near downtown Dallas on Sunday.
Miers smiled at reporters but did not stop to answer questions as she entered the Church of the Incarnation, which Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and other well-known state politicians attend.
When asked by a reporter if she was surprised by the conservative reaction to her nomination, Miers replied, "Nice to see you."
...For years, Miers was a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas, but she and about 150 of its 1,200 active members have left the church to form a separate congregation, according to Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht. A friend of Miers, Hecht also is part of the breakaway group.
Valley View is part of a movement known as Christian Churches and Churches of Christ....As a child, Miers attended Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. In 1979, she was baptized at Valley View, and she later taught Sunday school classes there.
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justification for being SILLY. sillienss abounds. this article and the dissection of her church attendance being a prime example.
---It's immaterial.---
That's not what nmh is saying! Go back and read those posts!
As posted by others, she and about 200 others have left the church she has been attending because the long time pastor has been replaced. I've seen unconfirmed information that it is because the new pastor is new age and PC, compared to the old pastor. This group, including the old pastor, has been meeting in a Dallas motel ball room and Miers has joined them when in Dallas. That would probably be just too much right now, so she attended services at a church attended by Senator Kaye Baley Hutchinson, among other prominent conservatives.
Smart move. And, yes, there are a lot of conservative Episcopal churches, particularly in places like Texas. An ex Catholic might feel very at home there, at least visiting.
Maybe you should go TWO times.
I find once it enough. I don't feel the need to make a SHOW of it for political reasons.
Nothing against conservative Episcopals, especially since after Vatican II, they often have prettier churches than we do.
But this incident has me wondering how much of the "assurances" about Miers we can take on faith. "Trust Bush"? No, thanks.
ann coulter called Ms. Miers a "cleaning woman" on bill maher's show, and the liberal LA audience ate it up.
ann coulter is like chuckie schumer, one of the most dangerous places on Earth is between ann coulter and a TV camera.
Let's see, She and President Bush attended St. Matthew's Cathedral for Mass last Sunday. Neither of them are Catholic, although she was raised a Catholic. Does their attending the St. Matthew's showing that both of them are going to be come Roman Catholic (please ignore the fact that this was a special annual mass held at the start of the Supreme Court, just as one should ignore that she may have been attending services with a family member or friend without it indicating any change in affiliation.)
We must get to the bottom of this, is President Bush going to renounce his born again Protestantism and become a Roman Catholic???? Serious people need to investigate this. (Scarcasism off)
I'm trusting President Bush on appointing Miss Miers to the supreme court. I like the concept that a non-elite school and work-a-day lawyer is being nominated to the court.
---What I see is a humanistic flip-flopper. One day she's this. Later she's that. Right now she is trying to "humbly" look like she is an avid church goer by going to TWO church services in one day - that smacks of cheap theatrics.---
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, no matter how stupid and bigoted it is.
What church she goes to is of no importance.
Last I saw from Hecht was her membership in the bigger church. Now he's announce the splinter thing. When was that first announced so I CAN read up on it and be as informed as my friend Dane.
. . . that should tell you something.
For heaven's sake let the lady speak for herself. This is just hysteria, whipped up by some pundits who think Miers is an "outsider".
A few people tried the same thing with Roberts (wasn't Ann Coulter one of them?) but it didn't go. He spoke for himself quite firmly at the hearings.
Miers ought to have a chance to speak for herself, too many people here have already made up their minds based on rumor and hearsay.
You have properly shamed me for being on this thread.
Wait, a second, you are here too. hmmmm.
Thank you, Miss Marple! I've been reading this thread and absolutely disgusted by the judging going on by those who say they are Christians. Some people will NEVER be satisfied.
Congratulations on starting one of the most petty, small-minded and irrelevant threads ever.
This is an unbelievably pathetic argument to be having about a Supreme Court nominee.
i can't help it, it is like a train wreck... watching people carry on about this.
My objections are all valid, and the fact that you refuse to even consider the possibility that this particular individual might be a flawed nominee bespeaks an inability to question anything President Bush does.
I like President Bush-and have voted for him several times in the past-but I am not willing to sacrifice my political principles simply because a herd of Bush bots demands that I do so.
Then what are you yelling at me for?
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