My kinda judge!!
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Look, in my experience Episcopal churches are pretty liberal. It's the Episcopal church that has the gay bishop. Maybe Episcopal churches in Dallas are more conservative, I don't know.
I trust Bush AND I trust my own judgement. What about you?
This reminds me so much of the mindset around here during the Terri event in Florida.
Good grief! Can't the woman even go to church without someone criticizing her? Sheesh!
Didja know that all episcopals aren't alike? Is that hard to understand?
Speak for yourself.
Does it remind you of liberal nitpicking?
My kinda judge!!
We should not be having this debate.
If he had nominated any of a number of well-regarded judges from the Appellate circuit, then there would be no disunity among the right.
This was a no-brainer.
Even if one of these nominees, e.g. Owen, Pryor, Brown, Williams, among others, had been filibustered-far from a certainty-he could have still nominated Miers.
In other words, nothing would have been lost, but we would have had an energized conservative base.
Maybe you should have read the article and gotten the facts straight before you tried to set off yet another round of wrist slitting by the Perpetually Pi$$ed Off with your thread title, huh?
And your reply does nothing to absolve you of the claim I made: once you found out you were WRONG, rather than admit your mistake, you searched for something ELSE to bash her with and settled on "Why didn't she go to her own church?"
It's none of your business why; she doesn't owe you an explanation WHY she went to this church today.
Petty.
Might as well be Catholic.
This ought to clear it up:
Episcopal churches are the churches with bishops, but generally those whose bishops are in Apostolic Succession. In the more specific sense the term is applied to those particular churches associated with Henry VIII and with the Church of England. The word "episcopal" is commonly used to distinguish between the various organizational structures of Protestant churches, thus the word presbyterian is used to describe churches ruled by elected Elders while "episcopal" is used to describe churches ruled by bishops. Others are neither, being congregational and local in structure. Examples of specific episcopal churches are:
The Episcopal Church in the United States of America
The Scottish Episcopal Church
However, other churches overseen by bishops and with a connection to the Church of England are NOT members of the Anglican Communion. The United Methodist Church is one example. All Methodist churches have their roots in Anglicanism because their founder, John Wesley, was an Anglican minister in England in the 1700s. Methodists, however, do not look to the Archbishop of Canterbury for leadership as Anglicans do, nor to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (ECUSA) in America. Further, Methodist bishops are not in Apostolic Succession. Wesley held that bishops are merely presbyters who have been chosen for a supervisory position by the Church, and that there is, therefore, no necessity of them receiving a laying on of hands of prior bishops whose "orders" are allegedly traceable in unbroken succession to the Apostles.
Churches that are members of the Anglican Communion are episcopal churches in polity, and some are named "Episcopal." However, some Anglican churches do not belong to the Anglican Communion, and not all episcopally-governed churches are Anglican. The Roman Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Churches, and the Eastern Orthodox churches are recognized, and also their bishops, by Anglicans.
Episkopos is also used in Discordianism as a title of a person who has started their own cabal or sect of Discordianism. One of the key tenets of Discordianism is everyone has papal infallibility. Thus, everyone has the authority to diverge from the Polyfather if desired or in case the Polyfather is unreacheable.
Exactly. When presented with the FACTS, the nits just find something ELSE to latch on to.
It's like a child bringing home a report with all A's, but one A -, and the parent saying "Well, you almost didn't make it."
Or should we just have the Senate rubber stamp her nomination, without any inquest into what her actual judicial philosophy-if she even has a coherent judicial philosophy-is?
Hmm...?
If Brownback or Kyl or Coburn ask her tough and enlightening questions, that will just prove they are elitists, sexist, DU trolls. (/sarcasm)
Think of how much better off we all would have been if President Bush had not made such an egotistical, thoughtless choice.
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.
Or should we just have the Senate rubber stamp her nomination, without any inquest into what her actual judicial philosophy-if she even has a coherent judicial philosophy-is?
Hmm...?
Yes hmm, but not directed at Harriet Miers, but directed at someone whose acronym would be DNDMSB.
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