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*** Committee Motion: Motion to Refer Refer to: South Central Jurisdictional Conference ***

Committee Vote:

For: 51

Against: 5

Not Voting: 1

Vote Date and Time: 4/28/2008 1:30 PM

Plenary Action Status

Last Vote Action: Vote on Main Motion

This motion was Adopted, with 844 votes for and 20 votes against.

Plenary Motions: 4/30/2008 9:39 AM

Vote on Main Motion ADOPTED 844-20

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mikael___080501_methodists_reject_sm.htm

Submitted Text

SMU Bush Presidential Library Rejection (80089-MH-NonDis)

I hereby petition the UMC General Conference to prevent leasing, selling, or otherwise participating in or supporting the presidential library for George W. Bush at Southern Methodist University.

Rev. Andrew J, Weaver, Ph.D.

AWeaver747@aol.com

(Protect SMU Petition)

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. - Martin Luther King Jr.



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SMU Bush Presidential Library Rejection (80089-MH-NonDis)

I hereby petition the UMC General Conference to prevent leasing, selling, or otherwise participating in or supporting the presidential library for George W. Bush at Southern Methodist University.
Rationale

We should support separation of church and state and if the Bush library goes on the SMU campus or property it will appear to the country and the world as an endorsement of that president by the United Methodist Church. Texas is a big state; surely there are other venues...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mikael___080501_methodists_reject_sm.htm


SMU Bush Presidential Library Rejection (MH171-NonDis-R)
Calendar Item Status: Committee Voted (Printed in DCA p. 2260)
Calendar Item No: 1185
Petitions on Calendar: 80089
Consent Calendar: Calendar D04
Committee Motion: Motion to Refer
Refer to: South Central Jurisdictional Conference
Committee Vote:
For: 51 Against: 5 Not Voting: 1
Vote Date and Time: 4/28/2008 1:30 PM

This is hard to understand. Were there two votes, the assembly and the committee and that the motion was adopted by the general assembly and then referred? I can't be sure. It may be that the General Assembly's decision on this is not binding or decisive. It is unclear.

I did not find a text that would have referred the question. I only found the text above which was clearly a condemnation of the situating of the library at SMU.