Indianapolis Star tries to rehabilitate RW fundie Patricia Miller

[IndianaGreen]

Miller has for eight years led the Confessing Movement, an Indianapolis-based group trying to pull the (United Methodist Church) away from more liberal interpretations of Scripture and back to its roots.

A sympathetic portrait of a truly ignorant and evil character:

November 5, 2005

Fueled by her convictions

State Sen. Miller's conservative religious beliefs have shaped her political career

By Robert King

State Sen. Patricia Miller was wrapping up a luncheon presentation to the League of Women Voters when the questions turned from election reform to something she found a bit harder to digest.

"Will you reintroduce the bill on assisted reproduction?" a woman in the audience asked.

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Miller, who vowed she will steer clear of the marriage requirement in any future legislation, looked around at the 20 women seated in the banquet room and sought some common ground.

"Probably everyone in the room is a Christian," she said.
Quickly corrected on that point, she apologized and continued.

"I think that most people want their elected officials to be people of integrity, or moral conviction. I don't think they want us to blow in the wind with the first person who offers us something, that we'll waffle around. I think people want us to be people of integrity," she said.

"My religious views do impact my position on issues of what I think are moral, theological integrity for me."

As Miller came to a stop, the room fell silent.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051105/NEWS01/511050498

[Ouabache]

1. I find it not odd at all, in that picture of her in church, that

NOT ONE PERSON is sitting in the pew with her. That says a whole lot right there. We ought to find someone to run against her in the Republican primary.

Beat her up in the primary, maybe even take her out. Make her history.

[HoosierClarkie]

2. I used to go to that church.

It is pretty liberal. HA! :)

[Philo]

3. Funniest bit of copy I've read in a while...

"Probably everyone in the room is a Christian," she said.
Quickly corrected on that point, she apologized and continued.

That's comedic gold, right there.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi Philo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Sadie5]

5. The room fell silent??

Probably because the audience was stunned that she had tried to gloss over her stupidity. Her church seemed not to want to stand behind her which says a lot.