Harriet Miers: Signs that she is pro-life
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.”
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 a pro-choice person would feel at home in the church.
-Michael McCulloughMiers 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 a pro-choice person would feel at home in the church. If I had to be pinned down as to whether Harriet Miers is pro-life, my answer would be a definite “very likely.”
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Scientists working at the prestigious Zarr Chasm Junior College Environmental Research Center, Sore, WV, have shown that there is a direct connection between toilets—specifically: toilet usage—and increased hurricane activity. Critics are asking why the Bush administration is dropping the ball on this one. Didn’t they learn their lesson from Katrina?
Research shows that Harmonic Flushing Habits cause an increase in the gravitational pull on the earth—resulting in # 1: TB (Terra-Bulging), resulting in #2: AB (Atmospheric-Bulging) and that results in the AB heating up against CRAP (Celestial Random Atomic Pulses).
Dr. Ivan Scrulous, head researcher at ZCJCERC, explains it this way: too much water on one side of the earth, causes a distortion in the earth’s roundness causing the atmosphere above this bulge to be rubbed against atomic molecules in solar wind of space. The resultant friction causes a heated atmosphere—the nursery of hurricanes!
The earth could handle the water, if people would just not all flush between 6 am and 7 am—Harmonic Flushing Habit. However, since this is the time that most people are getting ready to go to work or school, then little can be done. However, Scrulous suggests the following: if possible, relieve yourselves out of doors, do not flush your toilet on odd numbered days if the master of the house’s last digit of his or her Social Security number is odd—even numbers days, if even. Also, the brave at heart, could take their waste with them to works and then flush it at break time/recess time (odd numbered SSI last number) or lunch time (even numbered SSI last number). Illegal aliens, without SSI cards should apply for SSI or flush their waste at the afternoon break/recess. If you do nothing else, please remember: “If it’s yellow—let it mellow. If it is brown, then flush it down!”
Earth is in the balance. Help fight HFH! Let’s stop—or at least, lessen the intensity of—hurricanes! Do it today. Do it for the children.
T. Hagedorn
WV Council of Chipmunks and Churches
Arthurdale, WV
Posted by: Terry Hagedorn | October 22, 2005 09:43 AM