Faith in Jesus has shaped court pick’s thinking and personal values

[ECH1969]

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-and-off 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."

Hecht suggested that it would be difficult to attend Valley View regularly and support gay rights. At the same time, he said, Miers's faith made her more sympathetic to the struggles of others, and her duties as an at-large City Council member transcended her personal views.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9593793/

[Maat]

1. Interesting .. and I found this article, which is very enlightening.

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http://www.christianstandard.com/articledisplay.asp?id=...


"Faith in Action

Miers is a woman of faith with strong Christian beliefs. To her, it has been “wonderful to be working for a president who is a believer and who acts on his faith.” The president talks about his faith often, and it is important to him. It also is important to Miers. She brings her faith to bear on everything she does. It’s not only a part of how she views issues, it also affects her willingness to serve and her desire to do well. She readily acknowledges that she can’t do anything without the grace of God."

Being faithful is not the problem, but I AM seeing typical Religious Hardright buzzwords in that article.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Bush being religious is such crap

If he was religious and really did follow Christ's teachings he wouldn't be there in the first place. He wouldn't have lied about war and Saddam Hussein and he wouldn't have killed thousands of innocents (all deadly sins). He wouldn't be "in bed" with corporations such as Haliburton and he wouldn't have had Cheney as his vice president.

[greyl]

4. How many self-proclaimed xtians have you gotten to know?

Osama Bin Laden believes in Jesus too. To the faithful, god and the afterlife are more important than the lives of non-believers opposed to their god.

[MissMarple]

3. Sadly, this isn't about Jesus or God. It's all about the corporal power.

The money and the power. These guys need to watch out for the lightning. There is a rule about what one casts out.