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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-05 09:41 AM
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Miers' 'Anti-Choice' stance outlined by this article-
While meaning to 'reassure' their conservitive base, this article should give anyone who has a doubt about her views, and associations with anti- abortion movements a strong reason to say NO WAY-.


"... Miers's religious conversion in the late 1970s, as recounted by Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht, is being cited by the Bush administration in its drive to reassure conservatives that Miers shares their views on abortion and other social issues. ...........
.............. Hecht, 56, who says he and Miers, 60, his former law partner, are ``good close friends,'' recalled that she decided to become an evangelical Christian in 1978 or 1979 when ``she started thinking about what's going to be important in life.''

``Over the course of several months, she wanted a deeper faith,'' Hecht said. Before joining the Valley View Church, where Hecht had been a member, Miers had been ``half Catholic, half Episcopalian,'' he said.

Miers's developing opposition to abortion ``came about the same time'' she joined his church, Hecht said. He said his willingness to talk publicly about Miers's Christian faith wasn't prompted by White House officials. He said the church doesn't have a formal position on abortion, and he didn't describe the opposition of its members in militant terms.

`Pro-Life' Group

``But it is pro-life,'' he said. ``You don't have to raise your hand or swear on the Bible or sign anything. They sometimes have literature in the back, maybe a speaker will come. They don't march down to the clinics.'' ...................

more at:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a6jP82mF7BDg&refer=us


A good place to look for who she really is, is to check out what those who are "his base" are using for reassurance.

Scary stuff- very scary stuff.
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