Friday, May 2, 2008
The Fat Lady has sung on the various anti-Israel pushes within the United Methodist Church's meeting currently wrapping up in Texas. Divestment has, once again, gone down in flames.
Word has it that Jewish Voice for 'Kill Me Last' was out in force, and there were plenty of them on hand to be the fig leaf for those within the Church pushing measures to punish the bad Jews. They failed. Badly.
As I understand it, it went basically like this: The committees recommended a no-vote on the measures and that they not be put up for floor discussion and vote. It only took 20 signatures to take it off this list and place the matter back on the schedule for discussion for the full plenary and this was done (hence the Fat Lady showing up in our comments earlier to warn us she hadn't sung). This was then voted off the schedule and back onto the list of things which would be accepted by consent as per the committee recommendation.
Is that confusing? Just know it was defeated. The Methodists aren't interested.
If you'd like to see how well things went, take a look at item #1369. It has to do with travel to the Holy Land, not divestment. You can click on the link for Submitted Text (when it's working, it appears to be broken at the moment) and see how the item was submitted and how it was changed by the committee. Very, very positive.
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Add the Methodist Church to the long list of institutions that have shown divestment the door once anyone beyond distant leaders and single-issue advocates have had a say on the matter.
As they say, it's time to Move On. So is anyone going to see Ironman this weekend?
Jon