"Strong Grounding in the Church Could Be a Clue to Miers's Priorities"

[dajoki]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR2005100401765.html?referrer=email
The Nominee's Private Life
Strong Grounding in the Church Could Be a Clue to Miers's Priorities

By Michael Grunwald, Jo Becker and John Pomfret
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 5, 2005

One evening in the 1980s, several years after Harriet Miers dedicated her life to Jesus Christ, she attended a lecture at her Dallas evangelical church with Nathan Hecht, a colleague at her law firm and her on-again, off-again boyfriend. The speaker was Paul Brand, a surgeon and the author of "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made," a best-selling exploration of God and the human body.

When the lecture was over, Miers said words Hecht had never heard from her before. "I'm convinced that life begins at conception," Hecht recalled her saying. According to Hecht, now a Texas Supreme Court justice, Miers has believed ever since that abortion is "taking a life."

"I know she is pro-life," said Hecht, one of the most conservative judges in Texas. "She thinks that after conception, it's not a balancing act -- or if it is, it's a balancing of two equal lives."

Hecht and other confidants of Miers all pledge that if the Senate confirms her nomination to the Supreme Court, her judicial values will be guided by the law and the Constitution. But they say her personal values have been shaped by her abiding faith in Jesus, and by her membership in the massive red-brick Valley View Christian Church, where she was baptized as an adult, served on the missions committee and taught religious classes. At Valley View, pastors preach that abortion is murder, that the Bible is the literal word of God and that homosexuality is a sin -- although they also preach that God loves everybody.

[PurityOfEssence]

1. Great, so we're at the mercy of another selfish fantasist who doesn't fuck

We don't KNOW that she's celibate, but that seems to be the implication.

Sorry, wisdom doesn't come from people who don't live a real life. Maybe the occasional oddball like Kafka has something to say worth hearing, but he's an extreme rarity.

[Zenlitened]

2. That's what I'm afraid of. Another religion-besotted proselytizer...

... in a position of power. Hellooooooo, taliban! Come on down!

:puke:

[dajoki]

3. what else is she for or against...

that's what worries me. we know nothing about her, except she is another bush crony. our senators better dig deep, we know how forthcomming this administration is, don't we?

"I know she is pro-life," said Hecht, one of the most conservative judges in Texas. "She thinks that after conception, it's not a balancing act -- or if it is, it's a balancing of two equal lives."

[jackthesprat]

4. we know Bush loves her.

saw her heart or whatever. Best buddies with Bush means far right wing ideologue.

[dajoki]

5. yep!! n/t