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Posted on 10/03/2005 8:52:39 AM PDT by DallasMike
Marvin Olasky talks to Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht on Harriert Miers on the World Magazine website. For those who don't know, Olasky is an evangelical Christian intellectual in the mold of Chuck Colson. Nathan Hecht is ardently pro-life.
This begins a series of seven posts on Harriet Miers, based on interviews with those who know her. Some background for the first five: I spoke yesterday with Nathan Hecht, the Texas Supreme Court justice who is a prolife hero for strongly supporting parental notification laws five years ago when a SCOTEX majority was scuttling them. Hecht, 55 and never married, and Harriet Miers, 60 and never married, have known each other for 30 years and are -- to quote Hecht -- "very close friends. We dated some. The relationship has been close: Platonic... We go to dinner, I go to Washington for special things."
Miers has been a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas for 25 years, where Hecht has been an elder. He calls it a "conservative evangelical church... in the vernacular, fundamentalist, but the media have used that word to tar us." He says she was on the missions committee for ten years, taught children in Sunday School, made coffee, brought donuts: "Nothing she's asked to do in church is beneath her." On abortion, choosing his words carefully for an on-the-record statement, he says "her personal views are consistent with that of evangelical Christians... You can tell a lot about her from her decade of service in a conservative church."
Hecht says about Miers' judicial philosophy: "She's an orginalist -- that's the way she takes the Bible," and that's her approach to the Constitution as well -- "Originalist -- it means what it says." He notes that her legal practice involved writing contracts rather than tort law, so she was always looking at the plain meaning of the words: "Originalist." He also says she's not a social butterfly who will be swayed by Washington dinner table conversation: "She goes to the dinners she's supposed to go to. She's not on the social circuit."
I know Valley View Christian Church through my pro-life work. I can't say whether any individual member is pro-life, but I would be surprised if someone who is not pro-life occupied a leadership position.
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Who the hell cares what her PERSONAL views are?
I've repeatedly consulted my Magic 8-Ball to ascertain her views, but it keeps changing its mind.
Is it not enough that a very conservative, pro-life Supreme Court justice considers that she is a strict constructionist on the Constitution?
Besides, there's no way you can claim that one's personal views don't form a part of one's professional views.
Not very convincing
I really don't care at all what their personal views are. Just their views on the law and the Constitution.
A lot of Freepers are just as stupid as the RATS who get suckered every time.
The same as the Catholic Church.
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Thanks, NYer.
This is extremely important information. Very helpful.
All I know is that Roberts and Myers better be pro-life, or I'm voting for the Constitution party candidate in the next election. Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me three times; shame on me.
I agree. I have cited Catholic leader Leonard Leo several times in my writings to help educate Protestants who may not be familiar with his work as Catholica Outreach chairman for the Repubican Party.
Promoting a culture of life is one big area where Catholics, charismatics, and evangelicals can all find common ground.
Members of all Christian groups have prayed for President Bush to be given wisdom for selecting this Supreme Court seat. President Bush is a man who seeks after God and I believe that we should trust that God has revealed the right person for the job to him.
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Well, we don't have that party on the ballot here in Georgia, but I have often skipped races in elections in the past, and I would not mind skipping an election altogether.
I'm not happy, but I'll wait to see what comes out about her in the next few days, and I eagerly look forward to watching her confirmation hearings. Could she be a trojan horse nominee the dems don't see coming? I hope so, but I'm not holding my breath.
By the time that is clear, the current people will be long gone.
It might and it might not. The proof of the pudding is in the tasting. It is premature to say that "he has sold us out again."
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