(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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