Religious leader calls for impeachment....

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Fellow Methodist Demands Bush Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2006-05-31 04:17. Impeachment
By Mark Tooley

WASHINGTON -- "Impeach President Bush!" urged Jim Winkler, head of the Capitol Hill-based United Methodist Board of Church and Society. Winkler was speaking earlier this spring here in town to an "Ecumenical Advocacy Days" rally for liberal religious activists, organized by the National Council of Churches, mainline denominations, several left-wing Catholic orders, and Jim Wallis's Sojourners group.

Winkler, ostensibly a spokesman for 8 million United Methodists, whose numbers include both Bush and Vice President Cheney, said impeachment is the correct response to an "illegal war of aggression" that was "sold on lies." He also cited the NSA's "spy program," which he insisted is "unconstitutional."

"These are actions far more serious than a failed land deal on the White River or a sexual indiscretion with a White House intern," Winkler said, comparing Bush to Clinton, whose impeachment was never urged by Winkler's agency. Had the Iraq war been led by John Kerry or Al Gore, Winkler surmised, the "Limbaughs and Gingriches of the world would be screaming for their impeachment."

Winkler insisted that Bush's removal was a religious imperative: "When I speak it is my desire to bring about the transformation of people and systems in order to advance the Kingdom of God even when it is painful."

The rest is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/11307

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1. WOW! Things are REALLY BAD when your own Church leader turns

against you!

I know, when I read the words Capitol Hill Methodist Church, I KNEW this was the Church that Shrub and Cheney attend. I find it very strange that this Church leader is speaking out publically about impeachment. I always believed if your minister felt you were doing something very bad, he would admonish you personally, but in private.

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2. while i am glad that this guy spoke out against bush.

this makes me half boil: ''When I speak it is my desire to bring about the transformation of people and systems in order to advance the Kingdom of God even when it is painful."

i wish he'd be this forceful talking about the acceptance of gay folk.

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3. Bush

I really wish Bush would be impeached I know America would be
better off it's a shame the dumb repukes can't see how Bush is
and impeach him