Presbyterian Minister or Terrorist Sympathizer?

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Presbyterian Minister or Terrorist Sympathizer?

Cynthia Campbell (an ordained Presbyterian Minister) served on the Woods Fund of Chicago Board along with Obama and Ayers in 2001, therefore she must support terrorism.

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Cynthia M. Campbell
... is the ninth president of McCormick Theological Seminary. A native of Pasadena, California, Cynthia was ordained by the Presbytery of San Gabriel on June 30, 1974 and began service in Dallas, Texas, as an associate pastor at Northminster United Presbyterian Church. While pursuing her doctoral studies, she served as interim pastor at St. Paul Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, Texas, and Madison Square United Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, Texas. In 1981, she became associate professor of theology and ministry and director of the doctor of ministry program at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 1988, she became pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Salina, Kansas, one of the first large congregations in the denomination to call a woman as head of staff.

Within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Cynthia has served on numerous task forces and committees. For the General Assembly, she chaired the Special Committee on Examination of Candidates, co-moderated the Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee, and served on the Board of the Vocation Agency. She was a member of the Task Force in Christian Obedience in a Nuclear Age as well as the Special Committee of fifteen, which prepared the final text of the Brief Statement of Faith approved by the denomination in 1990. She was a member of the Committee on Theological Education, served on the General Assembly Council, and was the moderator of the Congregational Ministries Division. Campbell has made significant contributions to the ecumenical church as well. She represented the Presbyterian Church in the United States on the theology commission of the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) in the preparation of the final draft of the COCU consensus and chaired the General Assembly special committee on COCU.

She is author of A Multitude of Blessings: A Christian Approach to Religious Diversity (Westminster John Knox, 2007) as well as a monograph, Theologies Written from Feminist Perspectives, published by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She has written articles on theology, ministry, ethics, and worship for Presbyterian Outlook, Reformed World, Insights, Interpretation, and Reformed Liturgy and Music. She contributed the "Trinity" entry to the Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith and wrote the forward to Presbyterian Polity for Church Officers.

Education
B.A. Occidental College
M.Div. Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D. Southern Methodist University

The group of terrorist sympathizers is quite diverse.

2001 Board

* Howard J. Stanback - Board Chair - Manager, New Kenwood, LLC
* Maria G. Valdez - Board Vice Chair - Attorney-at-Law Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
* William C. Ayers - Distinguished Professor Of Education, University Of Illinois At Chicago
* Cynthia M. Campbell - President, McCormick Theological Seminary
* R. Eden Martin - President, Civic Committee And The Commercial Club
* Barack Obama - State Legislator, University Of Chicago School Of Law, and Attorney at Law with Davis, Mine and Galland
* Suzanne Boyle, Board Treasurer
* Kristin Patton, Board Secretary

2008 Board

* Laura S. Washington, Board Chair* - Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor and Fellow of the DePaul Humanities Center
* Jesus G. Garcia, Vice Chair* - Executive Director, Little Village Community Development Corporation
* William C. Ayers - Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
* Lee Bey - Director of Media and Governmental Affairs, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP
* Doris Salomon Chagin - Category Manager - Ethnic Markets, BP Products North America
* Beth E. Richie - Professor and Head of the Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
* Patrick M. Sheahan - Executive Director, Public Affairs, UBS Investment Bank
* Charles N. Wheatley - President, Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
* Lucia Woods Lindley - Board Member Emeritus

The nefarious goals of the group according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_Fund_of_Chicago">WIKI are as follows:

Mission statement

The fund describes itself as "a grantmaking foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities for less advantaged people and communities in the metropolitan area, including the opportunity to shape decisions affecting them. The foundation works primarily as a funding partner with nonprofit organizations. Woods supports nonprofits in their important roles of engaging people in civic life, addressing the causes of poverty and other challenges facing the region, promoting more effective public policies, reducing racism and other barriers to equal opportunity, and building a sense of community and common ground."