Methodist Ministers Try To Stop Bush Library
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(May 21, 2008)--Some Methodist ministers are launching a PR campaign to try to stop construction of the George W. Bush's Presidential Library and an associated think tank at Southern Methodist University.

Library opponents have hired a Maine public relations firm to design ads for Methodist publications.

The Rev. Andrew Weaver of Brooklyn, N.Y. says the goal is informing people about the center's partisan think tank.

Weaver says some Methodists believe Bush policies including the war with Iraq and torture of foreign prisoners conflict with church teachings.

Critics are launching the campaign before July's meeting of the United Methodist Church's South Central Jurisdiction, which owns the land for the Bush complex.

Last year a smaller church council authorized SMU to lease land to the Bush Foundation for the complex and SMU officials say that's all the approval needed.

Baylor University was among the finalists for the library, but the president and first lady passed on the local bid in favor of locating the complex at Mrs. Bush’s alma mater.
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Posted by: Brian on May 23, 2008 at 04:51 PM
Good luck to them but I think it is too late. SMU, Methodists, and historic mainstream Christianity in general (as opposed to fundamentalists) have been opposed to wars except in the most dire of circumstances. Mac, Maybe you should call your church the crack house cause I think you are on crack. Patriot, Wow encouraging gays and lesbians to join your church and opening up leadership positions to all people. Pure Evil.
Posted by: susiebw Location: kempner on May 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Gosh I'm glad I am a Baptist!
Posted by: Mac Location: TX on May 22, 2008 at 09:41 AM
Perhaps, these Methodist ministers, should call their church, meth church. They got to be on something, no one is that stupid.
Posted by: Mac Location: TX on May 22, 2008 at 09:15 AM
How about taxes not paid by this church, but still gets to play politics. Perhaps they may want to move their radical self center church to another country. Ungrateful cult people, in my opinion, are out of touch with the real world.
Posted by: Patriot Location: Tx on May 22, 2008 at 07:51 AM
Is SMU against every war time president? How about Lincoln, who had this country killing each other (1st Unpopular war)...Woodrow Wilson who took us into WW1 to "make the world safe for democracy"....Roosevelt, who ordered our soldiers to charge into Europe, WW11 ... Truman, who dropped the First & Only atomic nuclear bomb to date....Johnson = Vietnam ( 2nd very unpopular war).--- Millions of Americans died in these wars. And no one can say there was NO enemy torture in any war!!-- METHODISTS have become LIBERAL LEFTISTS who encourage gays and lesbians to join and even ordained as ministers. Laura Bush should say she's ashamed to call SMU her alma mater and to heck with you...we're choosing Baylor!!
Posted by: Anonymous on May 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM
oh good grief!!!! go back to NY. havent preachers given religion a bad enough name as it is. talk about religious or political intolerance, makes me wonder if huckabee is behind this mess.
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