[Dialogue] Fwd: South Central update

[George Holcombe]

Got this this morning from Cynthia, an excellent church journalist on  
the Bush Library.

George Holcombe
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Cynthia Astle" <editor at umnexus.org>
> Date: July 17, 2008 6:15:00 AM CDT
> To: geowanda at earthlink.net
> Subject: South Central update
> Reply-To: editor at umnexus.org
>
> Crucial votes on the George W. Bush presidential complex at Southern  
> Methodist University
> will take place this morning at the South Central Jurisdictional  
> Conference in
> Dallas, TX. Last night the Committee on Petitions and Resolutions  
> voted to recommend
> rejecting the petition from South Carolina United Methodist Diane  
> Smock to refuse
> the entire Bush complex. The committee also voted "non-concurrence"  
> on a petition from
> four Central Texas Annual Conference delegates to approve the  
> library and museum, but
> not the independent institute that the Bush Foundation has said will  
> "further the domestic
> and international goals of the Bush Administration."
>
> A third petition proposed by the North Texas Annual Conference that  
> originally proposed
> to study the situation was so radically amended during the committee  
> meeting that its
> final form won't be known until this morning's proceedings. Primary  
> amender was youth
> delegate Arthur Jones, son of Bishop Scott Jones (Kansas Area).  
> Bishop Jones who has been
> the primary defender at the SCJ gathering of the Bush complex and  
> the process
> by which it was approved. Jones has accused a grass-roots opposition  
> campaign of spreading
> "misinformation" and "using the media to cause fear" among concerned  
> United Methodists.
>
> The petitions committee report will be presented after the first  
> ballot for bishops, scheduled
> to take place at 9:30 AM, said Bishop Charles Crutchfield (Arkansas  
> Area), current president
> of the South Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops. UM NeXus will  
> have a full report of the
> floor debate and the votes as soon as possible after the conference  
> takes action.
>
> Cynthia B. Astle
> UM NeXus Editor
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