(Updated) Methodists Vote to Reject Bush's Library at SMU

This is short but sweet. Please excuse the diary's brevity.

Update: The Dallas Morning news is reporting that the story isn't true, and that the vote was only to refer the matter to the South Central Jurisdiction's conference scheduled for July in Dallas. H/tip Hprof.

Well at least we know.

The People of the United Methodist Church organization has met in Fort Worth, Texas and voted overwhelmingly to reject [by a vote total of 844-20] the proposal to house the Bush Presidential Library at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

This has got to be a devastating blow to the organizations who have fervently campaigned for this -- not to mention the frat-boy-in-chief. Bush had wanted to locate his library at a prestigious location close to Crawford. It ain't happening. Get over it, shrub.  

I found the article over at the OpEdNews news site:

This rejection passed on Wednesday morning, 30-April-08, at the Quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church that is still meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.

This body is the highest authority of the denomination and cannot be over-ruled by any other body within the denomination.

The SMU website still has a photo of the library up and I'm not sure why except to posit that it has yet to update the website.

I don't know but the Methodist organization in question has posted the vote on their own website here.

The SMU website page where they announced the SMU choice on February 22, 2008 is here.

George W. Bush and "library" is an oxymoron anyway, isn't it?

Peace