Posted on 10/09/2005 9:50:34 PM PDT by msnimje
The long-standing relationship between high court nominee Harriet Miers and Texas jurist Nathan Hecht entrances and puzzles their friends.
By Scott Gold and Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writers
HOUSTON He was a country boy who grew up on a wheat farm, she a city girl who played on her high school tennis team.
The lives of Nathan Hecht and Harriet E. Miers began to intertwine in the early 1970s, shortly after they finished law school at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
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Soon, they were rising stars at the same law firm, and their lives seemed to be converging in every way. They were earnest, ambitious and increasingly affectionate with one another. Friends thought they would get married.
Instead, for 30 years, Hecht and Miers President Bush's Supreme Court nominee have nurtured a kinship that has entranced and confounded their closest friends. They are traditional conservatives content in a modern, nontraditional relationship, one that leaves plenty of time for their true love, their work, to take center stage.
Romantic at times, the relationship has played an important role in their ascent to power she as White House counsel, he as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, where he has served for 15 years.
"I think they thought seriously about getting married," said Dallas commercial litigation attorney Brady Sparks, who lived across the hall from Hecht in law school and has been friends with Hecht and Miers ever since. "They both decided that it just wasn't in the cards for the agenda they both wanted, and that was to do about three lifetimes worth of work in one lifetime." -snip-
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So let me get this straight: her primary qualification is her sterling character, as proven by (1) GWB's "trust me", and (2) her devout Christian faith. The former can't be examined, and now according to you, the latter is "none of our d--n business"? In other words, GWB says she's qualified, and we have no way nor no right to actually look into whether he's correct in that assertion. Loverly.
I'm not concerned about souter being a closet gay, but I do wonder whether ginsburg is human. klingon?
You decide:
That's the way I feel about Hillary. Klien's new book is full of gossip, rumors and innuendo about her but it's ok - because she's Hillary and she's evil.
"This blows the assertions from her detractors that she's a lesbo."
Yup, instead it just turns out she's an anti-committment, anti-children, dried up spinster in a non-traditional shackup. But she's a Christian, so all doubt must immediately evaporate.
Oh, and there are plenty of married people who are gay.
So, that broad brush doesn't paint in either direction, imo.
That is correct. The lady's love life is private. It has absolutely no bearing on anything.
I see. So she's a devout Christian who fornicates and inquiring any further is off limits. Interesting. Then stop claiming she's a Christian, since you aren't prepared to prove it.
How sick does a person have to be to equate having a long-term close friendship with a member of the opposite sex to a perverted non-Christian lifestyle?
I'd fire the question back at you, and ask how deluded you have to be to believe that a relationship that was "romantic at times" didn't include sex. But I won't ask it, because we both know you don't have any such delusion. That's why your starting point was that "her love life is her own business." Unfortunately, you can't have it both ways: if she's such a devout Christian, and we're supposed to believe she will ajudicate accordingly, then her position on, oh, sexual purity, becomes relevant.
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