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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because you weren't watching, you were participating!-
Quoted for verity.
Thank you. You da man.
How did I not "get my facts straight"? It turns out, from another article, that she later went to an evangelical church. But the article I read and posted didn't mention that. Look, the relgion thing has been a big issue ever since it was leaked to Drudge (by the White House?) that's she's evangelical. I was therefore somewhat surprised to see her going to Episcopal church. That's all.
Chena: I loved your post, especially point #5: Attending an Episcopal Church just to give her detractors something else to go nutso about
Actually that would be Vatican I, or maybe we call that "White House I" here. :)
Just an observation but threads like this are why I find myself reading less and less.
I like Free Republic and have always read much more than I posted.
But these constant accusations about Bushbots, kool-aid drinkers, etc. etc. by the FR mafia has really cooled my desire to visit the site. Give it a rest!
The constant flaming by both sides of anyone who dares to stray from their preferred party line has really interferred with what I thought was the purpose of this website.
FR used to be a place to share information and read and participate in actual discussion. Apparently that is a lot less true now than it used to be.
Ok, flame away. It seems to be what many here do best.
Unlike a lot of FR posters, I have been supportive of this nomination, in general.
The only reason we are even discussing this issue in the first place is because President Bush has insisted on highlighting this aspect of her life, because he has no other way of gulling overly credulous conservatives into supporting this woefully deficient nominee.
As it has always been, as it is now. Talk with those who behave decently, ignore those who don't.
,,, it is like a train wreck... watching people carry on about this.
Exactly.
Can you show me where you linked to that other article so that we'd have all the facts?
And is this or is this not your thread title?
Miers attends church services in Texas [Episcopal? I thought she was evangelical?]
Naw, the Terri Schiavo case made this look like a game of tiddlywinks.
Exactly.
This is among the many important facts on this subject that you will find if you click on my screen name (linking you to my profile page):
Historic Protestant, Episcopalian doctrine is Reformed and Calvinistic. The Episcopalian church that adheres to its historic doctrine is still Reformed in the United States.
"Calvinism prevailed in England since it was the theology behind the Thirty-Nine Articles (1563) of the Church of England" (Paul Enns, *Moody Handbook of Theology*. Chicago: Moody Press, 1989), p. 476.
The Episcopalians held as their subordinate standards the 39 Articles of Religion. This confession is Calvinistic in emphasis.
During that historic period, not only the 39 Articles of Religion ("Episcopalians"), but whenever you read of the Waldensians, the Bohemian Brethren (in Poland), the Huguenots, you're reading of churches that were Calvinistic.
Historic Protestant, Episcopalian doctrine is Reformed and Calvinistic. The Episcopalian church that adheres to its historic doctrine is still Reformed in the United States.
X. OF FREE WILL. 39 Articles of Religion.
The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
XVII. OF PREDESTINATION AND ELECTION
Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Wherefore, they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God, be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season: they through Grace obey the calling: they be justified freely: they be made sons of God by adoption: they be made like the image of his only- begotten Son Jesus Christ: they walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity.
"So, you're a mind-reader too. You've got this all figured out. She goes to church with KBH and some others, obviously by invitation. Then she decides to go to her own cuhrch. And your pretty certain that Bush told her to do it. Your posts are a waste of pixels."
Hon, I think your mind is a "waste of pixels". I have brains; not pixels. It doesn't take a mental giant to figure out the cheap theatrics going on here. I'm sorry if all you have is "pixels" to offer for brains ... maybe that's why your so hostile towards those that disagree and see through this nonsense.
I agree.
You don't know what a pixel is, do ya? LOL
bttt
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