Bush on Target with Pro-lifer Miers
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (10/05/05)
Harriet Miers is said to be a conscientious church-going single. She’s also a workaholic. She’s a determined career woman. She’s trusted by US President George W. Bush. And now she’s been nominated for the highest court in the land.
But what is particularly significant is the give-away secret. She’s an "evangelical."
I don’t know of any truly sincere evangelical in the world who is pro-choice. None. If there is one, it is not a genuine evangelical.
Evangelicals are definitely pro-life. They are Christians who believe the Bible to be the divine revelation. They testify to having a personal experience with Jesus Christ as Savior. They worship faithfully. They have daily devotions, that is, prayer time and Bible reading.
They believe in heaven and hell. Their faith concludes that Jesus Christ is the way to personal salvation, that is, knowing divine forgiveness for confessed sins. They hold to a biblical morality that cannot permit abortion. Having studied the Bible continually, evangelicals know the scriptural passages underlining God’s abhorrence for killing babies in women’s wombs. (See footnote).
Therefore, since Harriet Miers is an evangelical, she believes as an evangelical, she breathes as an evangelical, she lives out the evangelical ethic that is the biblical ethic. There are no ifs, ands, or buts with an evangelical. It is all laid out there in the Word of God; therefore, there is no adding to or subtracting from the Lord’s Word. It is perfect. It is pure. It is eternal.
When Harriet Miers spends time speaking about spiritual matters with the Chief Executive, as reported today in media, one can be sure that they hone in on their daily devotional readings, their insights derived from the Bible, and their commitment to God as a daily walk. That is what both profess. Mr. Bush informs the press that his faith is personal, that it is based on the Bible, that he prays daily, and that he believes that the biblical ethic is one provided by the divine.
These two persons, the President and Harriet Miers, are from the Bible belt that includes Texas. They have woven their lives around born again believers who likewise wear the "evangelical" label. They have scores of close friends who believe in intercessory prayer, the miracle-working power of God, a faith that is vibrant and strong, plus the hope that what God has ordained for their lives is worked out in their consecration to the divine will.
To theological liberals, all of this is mumbo-jumbo. It is foreign. It is a puzzle. Theological liberals do not have a high view of Scripture. Instead, they scissor out what is not convenient from the Bible. At times, they appear to rewrite the entire Book according to their relativistic philosophies. Theological liberals range all across Christendom but they are not regarded by evangelicals as truly "Christian." They may be "church folk" but they are not sincere believers.
A true Christian is one who has as his or her baseline of faith the Bible. There is no other Book like it. Therefore, whatever is found in that literature is above all other literature. It is the infallible revelation from the Eternal One.
Harriet Miers, being an evangelical, holds then to a pro-life position. That is shown here and there in her past record, though her so-called "paper trail" is slender. However, there are glimmers, such as her defense of the unborn when a Texas member of the American Bar Association.
According to AP writer Anne Gearan, Harriet Miers was one of those fighting for the American Bar Association to "reconsider its pro-abortion rights" position.
While serving as Texas State Bar President in 1993, Miers wanted the Association to put the abortion issue on a referendum of the organization’s complete membership. She asked if the Association should "be trying to speak for the entire legal community" regarding abortion. She went on to elaborate that the abortion concern had "brought on tremendous divisiveness" within the Association.
That brings me to trust Mr. Bush in his choice of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. Unless she gives up her Christian moorings, she will be pro-life.
There is more data coming to the fore to substantiate this. It comes via Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff.
NewsMax states: "The woman who managed Harriet Miers' one and only political campaign (Lorlee Bartos), tells the Dallas Morning News" that Harriet Miers was "’pro-choice in her youth’" but "’a born-again profound experience’ prompted a change of mind."
She continued: "’I think Harriet's belief was pretty strongly felt. . .I suspect she is of the same cloth as the president.’"
Bartos was manager of Miers’ 1989 campaign for a Dallas City Council seat. In that year, Miers "donated $150 to the Texans for Life Coalition."
"Born again" and "evangelical" are synonyms. If one is one, one is the other.
Those who profess to be "born again" Christians are likewise "evangelicals." They would not thereby be pro-choice but pro-life. Harriet Miers falls into that category.
If US President George W. Bush is correct in stating that he knows her convictions, her character and that she would not change over the years, then he is counting on Harriet Miers being "born again, " "evangelical" and pro-life over her lifetime.
The only thing that would change that pro-life position is if Harriet Miers forsook her convictions as a born again evangelical and became the opposite — a political and theological liberal.
In that case, she would have given up her allegiance to the Bible as divine revelation. In that case, she would be considered by other evangelicals as "backslidden" and in need of divine grace.
However, noting Harriet Miers’ faithfulness to worship, her deep spiritual convictions, and her personal study of the Bible, one would thereby be reasonable to conclude that at 60-years-of-age, she will maintain her evangelical stance for her future.
Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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