Miers Joins Dallas Church Breakaway Group

[IdaBriggs]

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is among a group of congregants of a Dallas evangelical church who recently broke away due to differences over church rules and worship styles.

The group of about 200, led by former Valley View Christian Church pastor Ron Key, formed their own church about a month ago and have been meeting on Sundays at a hotel in Dallas.

Miers has worshipped as a Catholic and attended Episcopalian and Presbyterian services, according to Judge Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court, who has dated Miers. She has been a congregant at Valley View for some 25 years and in 1979 was baptized by full immersion, consistent with the church's beliefs.

The church opposes abortion and Hecht indicated that Miers shares those views, including the belief that life begins at conception. "It was Harriet thinking things through on her own," Hecht said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051005/ap_on_go_su_co/miers_church_1

ON EDIT: Link being weird...fixed now. :)

[chelsea0011]

1. I for one can't believe that someone who believes life begins

at conception can possibly be a fair judge. Scalia is the same. Hard core Catholic belief that abortion is murder and he has never wavered in any of his votes. Faith can't exclude people from the court, but hard core beliefs that can't be separated from decisions should exclude people from the court. And Christians can't complain that this is discrimination. Many people of Catholic and Christian beliefs have broken with the church when they have to make decisions for the welfare of all. But hard cores can't. And they should be excluded. if the majority of people don't believe a person begins at conception, why should Miers be making decisions for all of them?

[KDLarsen]

7. Haven't you heard?

Separation of Church & State is so yesterday :sarcasm:

[BootinUp]

13. yeah, and Joe sixpack

admires politicians that tell him and his fellow Murkins how to live his miserable life.

[Gronk Groks]

2. Shrub's hardcore anti-abortionist crony nominee...

...is being revealed, boys and girls and Rowe is soon to fall.

Please Divinity, let the MSM take the blinders off and remove the muzzles so that the public is made aware of this...

PLEASE !!!!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. It's stupid article, lacking basic journalism.

The article says the group broke away over rules and styles. But then it doesn't say whether the breakaway group wanted stricter rules and more fundamentalist styles, or the opposite. They have omitted basic information because they either didn't research it or they didn't think about it. If they had researched it and been unable to determine it, then the journalistic thing would be to report the indeterminate result, but instead they failed to report, period.

[pinerow]

4. Valid point...

nt

[daleo]

5. They probably left it ambiguous on purpose

The truth would probably hurt the nomination - i.e. I suspect she is pretty far into the extreme of the religious spectrum.

[slay]

16. Excellent point - no mention of DETAILED REASONS for the split

What rules and what styles are they talking about? Some of the worst reporting I've seen in awhile. Where are the details?

[hvn_nbr_2]

19. Journalism rule number 1 (January 2001 revision)

If it looks bad for Bushco, don't report it. Conclusion: She's part of the nutcase cabal that thought the other nutcases weren't nutty enough, so they left.

[bmbmd]

6. She's a uniter

not a divider.

[WinkyDink]

8. Life DOES begin at conception; it's the DEFINITION of "conception".

But that isn't the POINT! The POINT is: When does SENTIENT life begin?

THAT is the salient question.

[Terran]

10. As someone pointed out here a few days ago

(I believe he was actual biologist), it's ludicrous to insist that "life begins at conception" because the sperm and the egg that create the human embryo are very much alive on their own, and are part of a chain of life that extends backwards continuously through humanity's existence. And there's little difference between a recently fertilized egg and the single-celled entities one finds in pond water, so if that's the "life" we're talking about, then we commit murder a thousand times a day when we wash out hands and move about the earth.

[BootinUp]

14. scientists are so uh..... scientific!

nice explanation.

[mmonk]

9. A blastocyst may be life

but its quite insane to deliver it civil rights yet (especially while they take rights away from aware and cognizant life). Heck, each cell in one's body is life. At some point, reason has to enter the picture of those making decisions.

[tanyev]

11. Wait a minute.

Miers has worshipped as a Catholic and attended Episcopalian and Presbyterian services

But Our Leader said she would never change! How is this possible?

[leftchick]

12. excellent point!

what are the chances an astute Democrat on the committee brings this up?

[BootinUp]

15. This may be important, I've been throwing up posts

here and there, trying to point out that if she was raised a Catholic it is very likely she is more open minded to other peoples religious views than your typical fundie.

[Toucano]

17. I appreciate that sentiment, but it's a bit of a leap.

It could also be that she's a divinity shopper, just looking for the entity that fits her beliefs. This is very different from someone who is open minded about other people's religious views.

She left each of those other faiths for a reason: she didn't think they were expressing the TRUTH as she sees it.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

18. She was also a registered Dem who changed to Repub

But, Shrub claims she won't change.:rofl:

[tanyev]

20. Oh, yeah, can't forget that one.

But other than the church thing, and the politics thing, I'm sure she is UNshakable.

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