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.

[nanetteclaret]

Yes, almost there! My annulment finally came through week before last, then we went out of town. We have an appointment with Father on Tuesday evening after Mass to see what's next.

[Maeve]

How wonderful that you are almost completely across the Tiber now! God bless your wonderful priest.

[Alia]

Your bigotry is only surpassed by your inability to read (my post). You merrily skipped culling select quotes so you could slap yourself on the back over an issue you are obviously fairly ignorant about.

You sound like a "pie crust" Christian, to me: Easily made, easily broken; no filling inside.

I hope others notice your gay endorsement

So, start a vanity thread instead of a mere post.

[PAR35]

No. Did you forget you had written this:

If I understand this correctly... the Episcopal is now under the Catholic church.

The Episcopal church is not under the Catholic church. The spiritual head of the Anglican communion is the Archbishop of Canterbury, but he has no authority, except moral, over the Anglican bodies other than the Church of England.

Anglican communion differs greatly from the Catholic church on the issues of divorce, and there are also differences on the sacraments.

There is also a significant difference in how they treat the authority of tradition.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

President Bush has not let us down with any judicial picks up to this point

BINGO !

[nmh]

Looks like Mary Poppins is your source of "wisdom".

"You sound like a "pie crust" Christian, to me: Easily made, easily broken; no filling inside."

And you didn't even get that right. I'll let you ponder what is wrong with it. Turn on those pixels in YOUR brain.


"Your bigotry is only surpassed by your inability to read (my post). You merrily skipped culling select quotes so you could slap yourself on the back over an issue you are obviously fairly ignorant about."

Yup ... how predictable. When someone doesn't agree with your pro homo agenda, you're a "bigot". YAAAAWWWWWNNNNN.
No "selective quoting" going on my me. You slipped up and you are EXTREMELY ignorant and easily charmed.


Also if I may add, NO DISCIPLINE. A few posts back you said you weren't going to respond to me any more. Here, let me show you how it's done. I won't respond to YOU anymore. I mean what I say. You're such a typical liberal. They talk out of both sides of their mouth and habitually lie about anything and everything and when cornered resort to mindless name calling.

You're such a predictable bore. Go bore someone else.

[nmh]

No. Did you forget you had written this:
If I understand this correctly... the Episcopal is now under the Catholic church.

The Episcopal church is not under the Catholic church. The spiritual head of the Anglican communion is the Archbishop of Canterbury, but he has no authority, except moral, over the Anglican bodies other than the Church of England.

Anglican communion differs greatly from the Catholic church on the issues of divorce, and there are also differences on the sacraments.

There is also a significant difference in how they treat the authority of tradition.
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Okay looks like you clarified that too. The Catholic church though does see it differently. The phrase used was the Episcopal church is "now in the fold" - despite differences ... .

Since I am Bible based - I am neither an Episcopalian or a Catholic and I don't pay that close of attention to their scandals or what either is doing organizationally.

[hinckley buzzard]

Then we would actually have a record to go on, instead of being forced to debate how many angels can fit onto the head of a pin.

I don't believe anyone is "forcing" you to debate anything, much less persist in argumentative drivel. Please, feel free to go to some other thread, with or without permission.

[AnAmericanMother]

If I understand this correctly... the Episcopal is now under the Catholic church. The difference being an Episcopal can marry whereas Catholic priests cannot.

This is just about as wrong as it can be. The only grain of truth here is that because of the turmoil in the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) right now, some Episcopal priests of the "high" persuasion are leaving the ECUSA and becoming Catholic priests, and the Pope has given them a special dispensation to be ordained even if they are married men. Like permanent deacons in the Catholic church, a former ECUSA priest who becomes a Catholic priest cannot marry after he is ordained, and if his wife should die he may not remarry.

The ECUSA unfortunately is still running itself and doing a rotten job of it.

I don't want to spend hours explaining the odd dynamics of ECUSA, but the short version is that there is a wide range of churches under the name of ECUSA, ranging from very orthodox bible-believing evangelical and charismatic churches on one corner, very orthodox High Anglican (or crypto-Catholic) churches on another corner, the "muddled middle" mainline protestant on another corner, and the loony left anything goes ultra-liberal heretics in the last corner.

Unfortunately the loony left heretics are currently running the show, and they are running off the evangelicals and the High Anglicans in droves. They are even worrying the mainline types. The international church is in turmoil as well because the vast majority of believers in Africa and South America are demanding that the USA branch be disciplined and the mushy liberals in charge in Canterbury (England) are waffling . . . basically the ECUSA is falling apart and probably will not last much longer.

Which is why OUR family left shortly after the infamous 2003 General Convention and joined the Catholic church (an action known amongst Piskies as "swimming the Tiber.")

[sinkspur]

The Catholic church though does see it differently. The phrase used was the Episcopal church is "now in the fold" - despite differences ... .

Wrong again.

[AnAmericanMother]

Hey, sinky.

Where are folks hearing this stuff? I wish that ECUSA would join the Catholic church, then they'd have some adult leadership.

( . . . and with any luck, BXVI would beat the prelates at 815 like a rented mule.)

[sinkspur]

They're not "hearing" it. They're making it up.

[RobbyS]

IAC,the Episcopal bishop of the Dallas Diocese is very orthodox. A lead of the fight against the Robinson guy and, I think, evangelical.

[kalee]

Unless they consider themselves anglo-catholic. :)

[Liberty Valance]

LOL! Thanks for posting that. Priceless.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Statement/Question: "Miers attends church services in Texas [Episcopal? I thought she was evangelical?]"

Response: Actually consistent with today's 'spirituality' she is in fact a Christo-Judeo-Zoroastro-Hindo-Confuso-Tao-Shinto-Wiccanist!

[AnAmericanMother]

But why?

What possible purpose does it serve to confuse the Piskies and the Catholics? Is somebody trying to attack Harriet Miers on the basis of being Catholic? Then why didn't they beat up on Roberts, who is unquestionably Catholic?

. . . color me a little bit confused.

[pointsal]

souter-2

[JFC]

are you kidding? What is the big deal here. So she goes to another church with her brother, some on here are acting like JUDGE and JURY. It is uncalled for.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt