Nomination of Harriet Miers to Supreme Court (Planned Parenthood Opposes Miers)

Planned Parenthood ^ | 10-03-05 | Planned Parenthood

[Callahan]

Here's the choice: Trust Bush to nominate a stealth candidate who turns out to be a solid pick, or trust our RINOS to stand firm in the midst of a Democrat/Media nuclear assault. I'll go with Bush over Hagel/Snowe/Chaffee any day.

[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.

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. It is full of pro-lifers. 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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[Callahan]

Souter was a totally unknown wierdo from Vermont. Miers is a member of the inner circle from Texas. Big difference.

Until she goes googly-eyed and starts braying about imaginary rights, I'm supporting her.

[metmom]

Really good points. Lucky us in NY to have Schumer AND Clinton.

[StandardDeviation]

"The fact that people are concerned about the slaughter of 40 million unborn is a source of amusement to you. I see. It's all a joke to you? "

I'm more concerned about overturning the recent decision regarding eminent domain than I am about overturning Roe v. Wade.

[Les_Miserables]

Planned Parenthood also opposed Souter....

[Terpfen]

Yes, I know. You should've read a little further.

My point wasn't that Miers is automatically great pick because PP opposes her. PP would oppose a ham sandwich. I was more satiring the hand-wringers and knee-jerkers who are out in force today.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Supposedly, she did a lot of work with Exodus International.

http://www.exodus-international.org/

From their website:

Statement on Supreme Court Nominee Harriet Miers' Affiliation with Exodus International

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Dated: October 3, 2005

Orlando, FL - Harriet Miers, nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, served on the board of directors of Exodus Ministry in East Dallas, an organization that assists ex-offenders in finding jobs and places to live. The organization is in not related to Exodus International, the world’s largest educational and informational outreach dealing with homosexuality. Exodus International has not yet taken a position on Miers' nomination to the Court.

(Emphasis added)

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Lucky us in NY to have Schumer AND Clinton.

Just because I am in Oregon, doesn't mean I don't have Scum-mer and Clintong. They are nationwide. Even though I left California, I still have Fiendstein and Botoxer.

I am still embarrassed whenever any of them get into the international spotlight. The four of them and that idiot Senator Widen here in Oregon make us all look bad...

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"I'm more concerned about overturning the recent decision regarding eminent domain than I am about overturning Roe v. Wade."

We all have our priorities. With some, it's innocent, human life. With others....

[Les_Miserables]

the hand-wringers and knee-jerkers who are out in force today.

Well I don't put myself in those categories but I am deeply disappointed as are a major part of the conservative base who have worked so hard for so long to get us to the point where we could post a known conservative with good credentials to the SCOTUS. Bush may know her like a book but we who elected him to do this job do not and we deserve better, much better.

[StandardDeviation]

"We all have our priorities. With some, it's innocent, human life. With others...."

Don't get me wrong I'm all for overturning Roe v. Wade, not because I'm pro-life, but because I think it is an issue that should be left to the states.

I'd be equally upset if the end of Roe was followed by federal legislation banning abortion. I don't think the federal government has the constitutional authority to legislate regarding abortion.

[Eva]

I heard this on the radio, yesterday morning, but still the conservatives whined that they didn't know anything about her conservatie credentials. I also heard that she is a very active member of a fundamentalist church, and has been for the past twenty three years.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"I'd be equally upset if the end of Roe was followed by federal legislation banning abortion. I don't think the federal government has the constitutional authority to legislate regarding abortion."

I wouldn't be 'equally upset' if there were a bunch of unconstitutional searches in seizures in every mosque. I would call it unconstituional, but I would also cross my fingers and hope that the courts drag their heels for a year or two before stopping it. Too many innocent lives are at stake for me to wholeheartedly oppose a little 'benign tyranny' when it's a matter of life-and-death.

Our problem is, we are a nation of laws. One day, we will be in a Nation of Love. That will be a wonderful day. Love should trump law, especially with a legal system as perverse and power hungry as this one.