Methodist ministers against Bush library

[Ilsa]

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/795/story/188340.html

Methodist ministers against Bush library

By ANGELA K. BROWNAssociated Press Writer
January 31, 2008 - 8:34 a.m.

Some Methodist ministers are making a final yet improbable attempt to stop George W. Bush's presidential library, museum and public policy institute from being built at Southern Methodist University.

They say United Methodist law requires approval from the church's South Central Jurisdiction, whose 290 delegates meet in July. The opponents say at least one-third of the delegates are against the Bush institute because it will promote his administration's policies that they feel conflict with church teachings.

"Let it be a topic of discussion and debate, and let the decision be made at the jurisdiction meeting," said the Rev. Kenneth Hicks of Little Rock, Ark., a retired bishop who opposes the institute. "Whichever side of the Bush library issue you're on, it would be more appropriate to do it in this democratic fashion."

SMU officials said the church already gave its blessing when the Methodist mission council in March authorized the university to lease some land to the Bush Foundation, which will manage construction and raise money for the project. The South Central Jurisdiction owns the land that SMU plans for the library, museum and institute buildings.

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An official announcement on the library's location still has not been made, more than a year after SMU, the 11,000-student private university and Laura Bush's alma mater, was named the lone finalist.

[Ian David]

1. Why they don't excommunicate him, I don't know. n/t

[Javaman]

2. Yeah, Library...more like a locked and sealed warehouse that will

never see the light of day.

[Ilsa]

3. Precisely. Why would they allow anyone to find the evidence

to convict them for crimes against the United States? Most secretive government ever.