Hedging her bets?
Ya gotta be wrong. Bush says she doesn't change.
Geez, the moaners and groaners will do that about ANYTHING. Sounding more and more like DUers every day. Give it a rest.
"accompanied by her brother and other members of her family"
This ain't her church. Somebody in her family is a member there.
I think there was some kind of split in her evangelical church - I read she has been attending a variety of Episcopal churches while in Washington.
Sheesh...... she's out seeking those lost souls don'tcha know....... Can't find them in your own enclave.
If Harriet Miers is confirmed, she will be the only evangelical on the U.S. Supreme Court. I think it is interesting and important to note the relative proportion of membership in various religious groups on the Supreme Court.
And that could be why some conservatives, consciencely or unconsciencely oppose her.
If Harriet Miers is confirmed, she will be the only evangelical on the U.S. Supreme Court. I think it is interesting and important to note the relative proportion of membership in various religious groups on the Supreme Court.
And that could be why some conservatives, consciencely or unconsciencely oppose her.
It's kind od funny to me.
There are some Republicans who will complain because she isn't going to a specific church, while there are some Democrats who will gripe because she goes to church all!
If Harriet Miers is confirmed, she will be the only evangelical on the U.S. Supreme Court. I think it is interesting and important to note the relative proportion of membership in various religious groups on the Supreme Court.
And that could be why some conservatives, consciencely or unconsciencely oppose her.
Harry Golden on Barry Goldwater: "I always knew that if a Jew got into the White House, he'd be an Episcopalian."
Good grief! Can't the woman even go to church without someone criticizing her? Sheesh!
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.
If I understand this correctly... the Episcopal is now under the Catholic church. The difference being an Episcopal can marry whereas Catholic priests cannot.
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.
1. She is visiting Kay Bailey Hutchison
2. One of her family members belongs and they all went to church with that family member
3. Pastor at this church is a noted speaker and they wanted to hear him
4. Musical performance within the service by someone they all wanted to hear
5. Attending an Episcopal Church just to give her detractors something else to go nutso about