A group of Methodist ministers has joined the fray over whether Southern Methodist University should remove itself from consideration as the host site for the proposed George W. Bush presidential library, The Dallas Morning News reported. In an online petition, the ministers say they “believe that the linking of Bush’s presidency with a university bearing the Methodist name is utterly inappropriate.”
The petition comes on the heels of concerns raised by a faculty group last week about how partisan the proposed library, museum, and think tank would be. In a previously scheduled faculty meeting on Wednesday, the university’s president, R. Gerald Turner, assured professors that any agreement to put the library complex on the campus would preserve SMU’s academic values and ethics, the Dallas newspaper reported.
