Posted on 10/26/2005 5:18:51 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
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I agree, as a very conservative prolife evangelical conservative, I've been supportive of the Miers nomination because I support President Bush in this time of war and I think it's time for a conservative evangelical on the Supreme Court. However, now I am very concern about what she said about abortion in the 1993 speech, and I will not support someone who is pro-choice or pro-abortion.
"The law and religion make for [an] interesting mixture but the mixture tends to evoke the strongest of emotions. The underlying theme in most of these cases is the insistence of more self-determination. And the more I think about these issues, the more self-determination makes the most sense. Legislating religion or morality we gave up on a long time ago."
I've been skeptical about this nomination.
But this...wow. Dr. Dobson, somewhere, is waiting angrily for his phone calls to the White House to be returned.
It's getting harder and harder to think she would be an improvement on O'Connor.
Here is what Justice Blackmun said in Casey:
The decision to terminate or continue a pregnancy has no less an impact on a womans life than decisions about contraception or marriage. Because motherhood has a dramatic impact on a womans educational prospects, employment opportunities, and SELF-DETERMINATION, restrictive abortion laws deprive her of basic control over her life. For these reasons, the decision whether or not to beget or bear a child lies at the very heart of this cluster of constitutionally protected choices.
She is to the left of O'Conner based on this speech.
this is what Justice Blackmun said.....sound familiar?
OF course she could bring in an 8 month pregnant woman to the senate hearing chamber, perform an abortion on her right there and many on THIS FORUM would still demand that we all support her to back the POTUS.
I don't think he knew.
I don't think he knew.
I don't understand why anyone would think she's a conservative.
Just because she's an Evangelical? I guess Jimmah Carter was too.
I love James Dobson, but boy does he have egg all over his face!
I would bet he's feeling pretty betrayed right now.
Really?
Tell that to the God you are supposed to worship Harriet.
"If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judgewhether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaultstake them to the place the Lord your God will choose."
Deuteronomy 17:8
"You have declared this day that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in his ways, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws, and that you will obey Him."
Deuteronomy 26:17
"Jesus said to his disciples, 'Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with a particular task, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. Therefore, keep awake - in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or at dawn, or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.'"
Mark 13:31-7
The White House contacted Jay Sekulow and James Dobson, assuring them that the nominee was A-OK.
If this reflects Harriet Miers' true beliefs, it represents an astonishing betrayal by the administration. I would be willing to guess that both Sekulow and Dobson feel very used right now.
It's from 1993, and may I rmeind you Ronald Reagan signed a pro-abortion bill when he was Gov. of California.
Maybe she told Bush she's pro-life now. Maybe she is. But the rest of us could be forgiven for wondering how sincere that impression really was.
I keep looking for that piece of evidence that brings out what Bush saw in her. But all I have seen so far just raises my concern level.
Not even if they are an evangelical Christian who is personally opposed to abortion?
" I would be willing to guess that both Sekulow and Dobson feel very used right now."
Agreed, but Miers' pro-choice statements are so extreme that I have to believe that the WH was unaware of them at the time they made the representations to Dobson et. al about Miers' supposedly pro-life views.
It would just boggle the mind to think the Bush administration would have said what it apparently did while knowing she had made these statements. Like they say, not only would it have been wrongm, it would have been stupid.
She might be. It depends on which side of the fence one prefers the nominee to come down on.
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