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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"Here is a link to her church "http://www.vvcc.org/beliefsgo.asp
Should read "former church".
See this article:
The Religious Affiliation of ...Harriet Miers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497449/posts
Episcopalians consider themselves evangelical.
Where the heck did that come from?
on a conservative scale of 1 - 10 this church is a 6. As aa former member I can say that they are not liberal, but are not fighters in the ECUSA warfare against the gay wing. The biggest reason for her to be there is the "adult hour" which is like Sunday school, where local leaders occasionally speak on topics important to the time. This hour could have 1,000 well placed people listening to every word from the speak and if would be off the record.
I was a member of this church for ten years and it is a very beautiful church, in every way. The preaching is always very Evangelical, but the liturgy is very Catholic. Lots of bells & smells (at least when I went there), wonderful choir and choir director/organist who sing the gorgeous Anglican anthems, a congregation that also loves to sing and does it well (old-timey hymns as well as Sung Eucharist), the building is gothic with beautiful stained glass windows and dark old wood, the Celebrant faces "Ad Orientum" and it really is toward the East, with the morning sun coming through a giant stained glass window of the Nativity with the Holy Family and Baby Jesus with outstretched arms. Some people say that it is "more Catholic than the Catholic church" (especially since Vatican II [Dallas has to have the largest number of ugly Catholic churches anywhere]) and it was the reason it has taken me so long to "Cross the Tiber," but I'm finally going. I can very well imagine Kay Bailey Hutchison saying, "Why don't you go with me to church today?"
When I was young I went to church enough so now I dont have to
When I was young I went to church enough so now I dont have to
"the" Gay bishop? As a former Episcopalian, I can tell you there are far more than Gene Robison.
Wow, that sounds like a beautiful church. I went to an Anglo-Catholic church like that before I crossed the Tiber... They were under the ECUSA, but never referred to themselves as "Episcopal." I think they have since joined the Traditional Anglican Council.
It's reporting that she went to two churches in one day.
OMG! not. Have I ever? Yes. Is it any of your business why? No.
Dallas gay leaders OK Miers pick
So? Your point is?
NATIONAL NEWS: Roberts helped gays win landmark case
So?
Bush and Miers are no stranger to being empathetic to homosexuals. The last thing a conservative person needs is a PRO gay individual on the bench. As for abortion ... who knows where she stands ... sometimes she's for it and other times she is against it - guess it depends on which way the wind is blowing. I found the best place to look is sites that I find repugnant such as the Washington Blade to see what why the opposition is so GIDDY over Miers potential nomination. I wouldn't trust Bush as far as I can throw a house. His track record on appointing perverts leads me to doubt his judgment.
Toss me into the Bush/Miers category. I've had gay friends most all my life. You grow up in the San Francisco Bay Area, work/live in San Francisco, you get to pick friends, among a large "gay" category. My gay friends were all conservative.
How would you politically "categorize" yours?
Long ago, there was absolutely no sense to remaining "a normal gay" (meaning not doing a perpetual Oprah on your gayness); -- as the gay "radical" brethren would out you, anyway. Were was the mercy in that? No where.
That would be a Doubletree Hotel. What does it say about her, that her church meets in a hotel where they offer you complimentary cookies when you check in?
yes,what does that say about her?
I am not familiar with Doubletree hotels, but the cookie revelation... well that's a bombshell to me....
I can see the scandal now... Harriet Miers accepts free cookie shocker!!! Groan... this could well ruin her chances. I just hope the MSM do not get a hold of this one.
Absolutely nothing, like a lot of this speculation.
I love your tag line. Are you at St. Mary the Virgin now?
"Where the heck did that come from?"
It's just the usual response when you don't endorse this stuff.
Heard from a private source that she had cornflakes for breakfast rather than her usual toast and eggs........Hmmmmmm
Unabashed bump!
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