Miers attends church services in Texas [Episcopal? I thought she was evangelical?]

AP ^ | October 9 2005 | AP

[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.

[CheyennePress]

Please produce one shred of evidence that says that Bush vowed to appoint KNOWN conservatives.

I don't think you can do it.

[nmh]

"You have nothing meaningful to say, so you sink that that kind of imagery. You've reached a new low. Your posts are contemptible."

I'll be diplomatic and not state what I think of your posts.

I am constantly amazed at people like you who get sooooo worked up they can't see or think straight. Oh, well ... you're not alone ... many use emotion rather than reason to make their judgment calls.
BTW, I'm not "sinking" any kind of "imagery". Hye, if you want to imagine that too ... go right ahead.

[Clara Lou]

You're so right-- Talk with those who behave decently, ignore those who don't. It's just so hard....

[freedomdefender]

Somebody quoted the other article in a post in this thread. Read through the posts and you'll find the quote. That's the only reference I was to it. I really don't understand why you're so incensed at me. I posted a news article and asked a reasonable question -- we've been hearing all week that she's evangelical, so I wondered why she was going to episcopal church. You can only take that as a negative if you have something against episcopal church. Otherwise, it's a neutral question. What, in your mind, makes a reference to going to episcopal church constitute an insult?

[Howlin]

I'll tell you why so you can understand.

Once it was clear that your thread title and YOUR OWN PERSONAL COMMENT in it were erroneous, rather than just let it go, you changed the argument to "Why didn't she go to her own church."

Nothing is EVER enough for some of you.

The other day I actually saw some fool (you know who you are) say, "Well, so what if she votes to overturn Roe v. Wade, then what?"

[Chena]

Chena: I loved your post, especially point #5: Attending an Episcopal Church just to give her detractors something else to go nutso about

I can't take the credit for that. It was Miss Marple who posted the 5 points. I was just posting to let her know I agreed with her. :)

[thoughtomator]

It takes discipline - you can do it! Don't reply to people who are trying to provoke you.

[freedomdefender]

You keep slamming me, but if you look at my posts since last week, I've been supporting Miers. Still do.

[nmh]

"You don't know what a pixel is, do ya? LOL"

Here some knowledge for ya ->

"Pixel" stands for Picture Element. It is the smallest part of every image you see on the monitor. The color of a pixel is partly determined by how many bits (on/off units) are used to store the pixel.

Now, after the topic change ... is it because she is a female that you are so attacked to her or just because Bush told you to "trust him"? Since thinking is not your strong suit, I bet it's because Bush TOLD you to "trust him"..

[Clara Lou]

is it because she is a female that you are so attacked to her or....
We no speakee same language./communications terminated, permanently

[claudiustg]

---With all due respect, I could care less what other objections other individuals have to Harriet Miers.---

Next you'll be telling us that you and flashbunny aren't the same person. :^)

[seadevil]

I'm diverging from the party line, which at this point in time is steering the Republican Party towards minority status.

ROTFLMAO...right! Who's gonna make it a minority? You? The other one to two percent of the "my-way-or-the-highway" Republican electorate? Do you even realize how statistically irrelevent you and other coupla hundred "I'm-outta-here" FR posters are? You really need to get over yourself.

Has it even occurred to you that this "dissent" was factored into the equation before the nomination was even announced? You think Rove & Company DIDN'T know this was going to happen? Who are you gonna convince? Which senator or rep is gonna get defeated? Can you name them? Who's gonna replace them? What's their chance of gaining enough broad support to win?

Tell ya what, I'll make a bet with you...right here, right now. If the pubbies loose their majority in either house in the '06 midterms, I'll contribute $100 to the charity of your choice. And here's the clincher, if they don't loose their majorty, you don't have to do a thing! So how 'bout it?

And for the record, I'm neither a registered Republican nor a registered Democrat; and haven't been for over 25 years.

[Dick Vomer]

Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Evangelical, Baptist, ... what's the difference? Is there a resource where I could find out what the main "philosophy" behind these sects of Christianity are?

I'm speaking only as a curious Christian who is a fallen Catholic and raising his kids as Presbyterians due to the wife's adamant refusal to becoming a Catholic.

We joke about the fact that I'm going to heaven and she's not..... since I'm a Catholic and she's "another".../sarc , just kiddin..

[NeoCaveman]

because you weren't watching, you were participating!-

Isn't that what you are doing right now?

[Dick Vomer]

what's the main diff between all the sects?

[Alia]

I agree with your post. Further, I'd add Bishop Swing to your list of those not being "adhered" to by the Faithful.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Harriet_Miers.html

[copwife]

My daughter's boyfriend's dad is an Episcopal pastor and he is a very strong Evangelical!!!You don't have to be a particular denomination to be a Evangelical Christian !!!!!

[Wuli]

Her choice of a Church, permanent or temporary, tells me nothing about her judicial temperment or what judicial philosophy we can expect from her. Those things, not her church attendance is what we need to try to discern about her.

The LSM runs these kind of articles precisely because they wrongly think the "legal" issue concerning her nomination IS her religion. They would rather help portray that as the paramount concern of conservatives, to obscure the real issue of "orginalist" verses activist judges. They cannot win their "living constitution" arguments, so they need to keep the public attention focused on abortion and religion.

[Alia]

And this current "freep" snapshot has you reeking of conspiracy theories!

Take a snapshot of anyone, take another another day, and you get to "create" your own story. It's the new way of education.. "telling your own story based on a couple of variables.". Creative writing, it's called.

The article is tabloid in nature. What's the news? That she went to Church A? And then Church B? This is tabloid stuff. When are we going to get reports on her bias against certain large oil companies and because a photo appeared, with story line, that she gets her gas at only "XXX" Station.

And after that... no doubts some NY Tabloid will begin the "NEWS REPORTING" that she only wears a specific BRAND of clothing; and that clothing line is not tony enough for the clique culture of Manhatten, right?

OM! She better be on that latest no fat diet -- that's REAL NEWS!