LOL. Methodist Ministers Don't Want Bush Library!!!

[FourScore]

DALLAS Jan 18, 2007 (AP)— A group of Methodist ministers from across the nation launched an online petition drive Thursday urging Southern Methodist University to stop trying to land George W. Bush's presidential library.

The petition, on a newly created Web site, http://www.protectsmu.org, says that "as United Methodists, we believe that the linking of his presidency with a university bearing the Methodist name is utterly inappropriate."

"Methodists have a long history of social conscience, so questions about the conduct of this president are very concerning," said one of the petition's organizers, the Rev. Andrew J. Weaver of New York, who graduated from SMU's Perkins School of Theology."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2803471

[LSparkle]

1. Those are MY kind of Christians!!!

[FourScore]

8. My family used to go to the Methodist Church.

I might just have to rejoin them!

[enid602]

12. Colorado

Maybe Bush can install his presidential library in Ted Haggard's old church. It would be fitting, in a way.

[Hekate]

2. Every major church body in the US condemned Bush's invasion of Iraq, including the Methodists...

...The lone exception was the Southern Baptist Convention. I keep saying W should try to foist his "liberry" off on Bob Jones University.

Good for the Methodists. I hope SMU doesn't cave in to pressure.

Hekate

[Horse with no Name]

7. The faculty doesn't want it either

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3055485&mesg_id=3055485

>>>snip
This excerpt kind of says it all I think. Kudos to SMU.
"Another matter that warrants our attention is that whether it aims to or not SMU will, in the long run, financially profit on the backs of hard-working Americans who feel squashed by policies they've now rejected at the polls. Surely it's not the case that SMU will allow itself to benefit financially from a name and legacy that globally is associated with suffering, death, and political 'bad faith.' Taken together, all these issues set decision-making about the Library in a framework of inescapable ethical questions, and remind us of a key imperative adopted by many leading universities around the globe: 'to be critic and conscience of society.'"

[LiberalFighter]

3. Plus... Bush's Library will have lots of porn

[npincus]

4. K & R

can anyone spell "pariah"?

[bobbolink]

5. Preach it, preachers!!

:applause:

Gotta love the backbone! :loveya:

[Robbien]

6. Basically they don't want the think tank which goes along with it

The think tank whose mission is to provide papers and lectures promoting GWB politics.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. What about the famous Wild Animal Orphanage in San Antonio, Texas?

It's a sanctuary for wild animals that no one wants.

[DeSwiss]

10. Well. Finally.....

....the X-tian preachers have spoken out. I hope its not too late.

If SMU does turn him down, here are a couple of other institutions of learning they could try:

[Faryn Balyncd]

11. thanks