She became a member of an evangelical church, in 1989, the same year "she took a break from a lucrative law practice and delved into politics with a campaign for the Dallas City Council in 1989, running for a nonpartisan post." She also switched to the Republican Party that year.
In a discussion with her campaign manager in 1989, Ms. Miers said she had been in favor in her younger years of a woman's right to have an abortion, but her views evolved against abortion, influenced largely by her born-again religious beliefs, said Lorlee Bartos, a Democratic campaign consultant in Dallas who managed Ms. Miers's City Council campaign.Is that religion or politics? If I were hot to get a pro-lifer on the Court, I would not be convinced! If she is a pragmatic politician, who made religion part of her persona when she chose to get ahead in Texas politics, what do you think she will do if and when she has the lifetime position on the Court? That depends on how things play out with the set of Justices she joins, what the issues of the day turn out to be, and how the consumers of the Court's work respond. She could very well form a coalition with Justices Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer and win the love of legal academia. There is more glory there than duly contributing her vote to Justices Scalia and Thomas, especially if the new Chief Justice distinguishes himself from them, as I suspect he will.
"She was someone whose view had shifted, and she explained that to me," Ms. Bartos said.
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If the administration can use her religion as an affirmative crutch to prop up her credentials, does that mean that Democrats can now start attacking nominees for theirs?
Is that religion or politics? If I were hot to get a pro-lifer on the Court, I would not be convinced! If she is a pragmatic politician, who made religion part of her persona when she chose to get ahead in Texas politics, what do you think she will do if and when she has the lifetime position on the Court?
Great questions, Ann! Nobody seems to really know what this woman believes, what her judicial philosophy is, or anything - except W, who knows her "heart." I hope the hearings will be more informative than they've been in the past.
stranger, can you clarify your intent in using the term "Xian"? Is this a common, neutral usage I've just never come across or are you simply a bigot? The only parallel I see is the hostile use of "Xmas" for "Christmas". I googled the term and came up with a city in Shaanxi province, China, but that does not seem to match your usage!
Your post does not seem unhinged in any way, but it sure seems like that usage is intended to be a poke in the eye to any Christian. If you are a bigot, screw you! :) If not, I apologize.
I'll not argue with you that the etymology of "xmas" might be totally benign, but one would have had to been in a coma for the past 20 years not to recall the periodic flare ups between secularists and other busybodies trying (and often succeeding) against public outcry to substitute "xmas" for "Christmas" in various settings. Try google if you doubt me. It was an interim step between schools and stores and most public forums moving from "christmas" pageants and sales and etc..., to "xmas", and finally to what we see now in the public square with the generic "holiday" or the banal "winter". This was a conscious attempt by secularists to de-Christianize the holiday and expunge Christ from the public square.
I simply took Stranger's extension of the usage to the terms "Christian" and "Christianity" as an attempt equivalent to the "Librul" or "KKKonservative" bullsh*t that often pops up on comment sections. I accept his explanation that that was not the case and I apologize for misinterpreting his post.
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