Opponents keep up fight against Bush library at SMU

[DogPoundPup]

Source: The Dallas Morning News

The fight goes on against construction of a George W. Bush Policy Institute at Southern Methodist University.

A delegate to the United Methodist Church’s South Central Jurisdictional Conference asked today for a ruling on whether SMU’s leasing of land for the institute would violate the articles of incorporation of SMU, the rules of the South Central Jurisdiction, or the Book of Discipline of the UMC.

The request will require a ruling first from the bishop who was presiding when the request was made. Bishop Robert E. Hayes Jr. has 30 days to issue a written ruling.

His decision automatically goes to the UMC’s Judicial Council – its high court – for review. That court isn’t scheduled to meet until October, said Dean William Lawrence of SMU’s Perkins School of Theology, who is a member of the Judicial Council.

Delegate Jeannie Trevino-Teddlie made the request. “In effect we’re subsidizing that land toward a policy institute that supports a political identity,” she said in an interview. “I believe that’s contrary to what our (Book of) Discipline says Methodist property can be used for.”

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[nickyt]

1. NGU!

[Faygo Kid]

2. Keep up the good fight, SMU opposition.

Wash the evil from your land.

[bluestateguy]

3. If Obama is the president, he will likely be asked to speak at the dedication

and I shiver to think of the brick shitting that will occur on this board when that happens.

[TacticalPeek]

4. K & R

Eggsellent.

[intheflow]

5. What a great argument!

Using religion against conservative who are most vocal about religious "values," whether they attend church or not.

:kick: for the folks blocking it at SMU.

btw, isn't a GWB "Policy Institute" kind of an oxymoron? :evilgrin:

[xxqqqzme]

7. That struck me as well.

Does he even know if he has a policy?

I'm willing to guess it would sound a lot like his definition of sovereignty.

[Peace Patriot]

6. A Bush library at SMU is a disgrace--after all he's done to slander modern Christianity,

and to tie Christianity into an unholy alliance with corporate and war profiteer interests, and, most grievously, to associate it with torture and mass murder.

I applaud those who are still fighting this outrage. It must surely be a difficult fight, as are all fights against our corporate rulers. In this case, our corporate rulers want a rightwing "think tank" at a Christian university, to serve their economic and political interests, and to honor George Bush, their "Pope."

Methodists, and all Protestants, once rebelled against the over-weening, pervasive, highly corrupt, international power of the Roman Catholic Church. That power has haunting similarities to the power of giant global corporations today. It's almost as if modern business corporations are modeled upon the medieval Catholic Church. They control human thought with relentless propaganda, as the Church once did. They control national and local governments, write their own laws, gobble up lands and resources, and require obeisance from secular rulers--all very similar to how the corrupt Church operated. And now these corporate rulers have their "Pope"--George Bush--constantly promoting their "religion" with its papal dicta on a very narrow sort of monopolistic, the-rich-get-richer capitalism, to the detriment of the freedom of the human soul, and the best notions of Christian charity and ethics.

I hope that this manifestation of the Bushite "religion"--a monument deifying George Bush--is ultimately rejected by SMU. It is an imposition from the outside, based solely on money and the power of money to get what it wants. The students, faculty and alumni did not want it. It's as if students were required to attend Catholic mass at SMU, because billionaire donors wanted it to be so, as the price of their support. An unfair imposition. A corrupt imposition, by the "money changers in the Temple."