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Miers attends church services in Texas [Episcopal? I thought she was evangelical?]
AP ^ | October 9 2005 | AP

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ecusa; miers; valleyview
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Think of how much better off we all would have been if President Bush had not made such an egotistical, thoughtless choice

Now you are engaging in classic projection.

How much are coulter/levin paying you?

61 posted on 10/09/2005 10:19:22 AM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Crazieman
Come on, have a critical thought. Principle before party.

Principle before party?!! Are you crazy, man?

62 posted on 10/09/2005 10:19:31 AM PDT by FixedandDilated
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To: Grampa Dave

Great cartoon! I was thinking of trial by fire scenario yesterday. "If the flames don't consume her she is a witch!"

Another scene that comes to mind is on the golf course in Falling Down: "You! You're not a member! Go around! Go around!"


63 posted on 10/09/2005 10:20:08 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Bush! Go Sharon!)
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To: freedomdefender

Your experience is not all encompassing.
There are conservative Episcopal churches that are continuing the work of the Gospel and will tell you vehemently that neither Bishop Spong nor Bishop Robinson speak for them. Granted these churches whether evangelical or anglo-catholic are fighting an up-hill battle but they are fighting.

Dallas is very conservative diocese that is leading the fight.


64 posted on 10/09/2005 10:22:43 AM PDT by kalee
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To: mdefranc
No, I am not a theocrat! I was talking to a fellow who said that there are 70 million evangelical Christians in the country and he said, "is it to much to ask to have an conservative evangelical Christian on the Supreme Court."
65 posted on 10/09/2005 10:22:55 AM PDT by FreeRep
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To: freedomdefender

My friend who lives in Dallas just got confirmed at an Episcopalian church (she is a new convert). She said her pastor is VERY conservative, and disagrees profoundly with the decision to have that homo guy become a bishop.


66 posted on 10/09/2005 10:23:11 AM PDT by DLfromthedesert (Texas Cowboy...you da man!!)
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To: Dane

By the by, my screen name is not an acronym.

I suggest you look up the definition of that word.

Also, "crony," when you have the opportunity.

67 posted on 10/09/2005 10:23:34 AM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
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To: Howlin
It's none of your business why; she doesn't owe you an explanation WHY she went to this church today.

Exactly right - These anti-Mires people continue to look completely foolish - They will have been on the wrong side of history (just as DEM's of today are on the wrong side of history concerning Iraq).

68 posted on 10/09/2005 10:24:06 AM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: claudiustg

"Great cartoon! I was thinking of trial by fire scenario yesterday. "If the flames don't consume her she is a witch!"

I'm surprised some cartoonist hasn't read the spewing and rabid ranting against Miers on FR and done the trial by fire scene.


69 posted on 10/09/2005 10:24:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: nhoward14

There's always someone on freerepublic that can put into words what I think...and this time it's an engineer?!


70 posted on 10/09/2005 10:25:04 AM PDT by chalkfarmer
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To: freedomdefender

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


71 posted on 10/09/2005 10:26:00 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: ex-snook

Nah ... she never flip-flops ... LOL!

Who knows what she'll do when she gets in there. She's as stable as jello.


72 posted on 10/09/2005 10:28:28 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: freedomdefender

Don't think so ... .


73 posted on 10/09/2005 10:28:58 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: freedomdefender; Howlin
From another article:

DALLAS — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, accompanied by her brother and other members of her family, attended a service at an Episcopal church near downtown Dallas today before she joined members of a breakaway evangelical group.

...After the hourlong traditional Episcopal service, Miers talked briefly with a couple of people and exited at a side door. She then headed to a north Dallas hotel to take part in a separate service conducted by a group that has broken away from the evangelical Valley View Christian Church.

I guess this requires another line of questioning now.

74 posted on 10/09/2005 10:29:13 AM PDT by deport
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To: dubyaismypresident

oh for Gods sake, admit that attacking the woman for which church she attended today is ridiculous, dubs! i am going to st anthony's in falls church today at 5pm, because xsboy had a hockey game this AM and so i wasn't able to attend my normally conservative St James. i am going to have to sit through Father Sandals leftwing crap this afternoon, maybe i will regress and turn liberal because of it.... /sarcasm


75 posted on 10/09/2005 10:29:19 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

well-regarded judges from the Appellate circuit,

NONE and I repeat NONE of the people you listed would EVER get approved. You can put up as many Conservatives as you want, but they would never get approved...hence the point!

Keep on whining...that's very helpful.


76 posted on 10/09/2005 10:33:23 AM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: FreeRep
My understanding is that another church that she attends is one of those "purpose driven churches" invented by Rick Warren. So being works driven ... I truly question her judgment and how Biblically aligned she is. I don't believe she has the ability to distinguish between Christian and non Christian doctrine ... all religions and denominations are not equal ... . It's common sense. When doctrines diametrically oppose one another they cannot all be true at the same time. Someone has it right and others have it wrong.

If Bush could run for a third term, you could count on me to NOT vote for him.

77 posted on 10/09/2005 10:33:29 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: FreeRep
My understanding is that another church that she attends is one of those "purpose driven churches" invented by Rick Warren. So being works driven ... I truly question her judgment and how Biblically aligned she is. I don't believe she has the ability to distinguish between Christian and non Christian doctrine ... all religions and denominations are not equal ... . It's common sense. When doctrines diametrically oppose one another they cannot all be true at the same time. Someone has it right and others have it wrong.

If Bush could run for a third term, you could count on me to NOT vote for him.

78 posted on 10/09/2005 10:33:35 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: xsmommy
oh for Gods sake, admit that attacking the woman for which church she attended today is ridiculous, dubs!

Of course.

I never said anything about her church attendence, even though that seems to be one of the thigs they are trying to sell us on her with, no?

79 posted on 10/09/2005 10:34:14 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (trust but verify)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

*eye roll*


Me too!

I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw my house.


80 posted on 10/09/2005 10:34:25 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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