Church nixes Cindy Sheehan's visit

Vail Daily ^ | September 6, 2005 | Dennis Webb

[AmericanMade1776]

GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Reflecting the national divide over the war in Iraq, a Glenwood Springs church has decided that the country's most well-know war protester, Cindy Sheehan, is not welcome to speak there.

The decision sends organizers scrambling for another local speaking venue for the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq.

Sheehan, who has garnered much media attention after camping out near President Bush's vacation home in Crawford, Texas, had been scheduled to speak at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Glenwood Sept. 16.

Church member Dean Moffatt, who had helped arrange to let Sheehan speak at the facility, said he was disappointed.

"Our church should be for peace and for an open dialogue for discussing issues that affect us all, and hearing things firsthand," he said. "We should be an open society and continue to strive for that."

He blamed a "neoconservative" group within the church for the decision to turn away Sheehan.

[AmericanMade1776]

Horace Santry, executive director of the Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas, left, speaks with Paul Fogle, who was demonstrating in Wichita, Kan., last week against Cindy. Sheehan's anti-war national bus tour. Mike Hutmacher, AP Photo/The Wichta Eagle

[SittinYonder]

"We should be an open society and continue to strive for that."

Has Mr. Moffat tried the Unitarian Universalist Church?

[SandRat]

Hey Dean!!!!!

This is what you should be saying!!!

[rocksblues]

"They ignore the fact that she's a mother of a fallen soldier, a grieving person," he said. "They buy into the conservative media and the talk shows and the conspiracies - you know, that she's a front for various organizations, etc. It's a real threatening thing, and they completely forget the Bible, they completely forget what our faith is based upon, and they react and this is what's happened."

U sir ignore the fact that she gained and lost her fame because of those same various organizations, etc.

[Zacs Mom]

"Church member Dean Moffatt, who had helped arrange to let Sheehan speak at the facility, said he was disappointed. "Our church should be for peace and for an open dialogue for discussing issues that affect us all, and hearing things firsthand..."

HEAR THIS, MOFFATT:

[TontoKowalski]

Man, she certainly went out of fashion in a hurry, didn't she?

Oh, well, Soros and company will soon have a Katrina victim following the President around, demanding accountability for the hurricane he invented.

[yooper]

Well, I've said this on this board here many times, when trolls are removed forcibly from the discussion. Stupid is as stupid does.

Ms. Sheehan should be allowed to speak in any venue, because every damn time she opens her yap, more conservatives are born.

There's too much preaching to the choir around here, as far as I'm concerned. Beating up intellectually on liberal twits is one of my few joys in life, and every time such an animal makes its presence known here on FR, they are unable to hang around long enough for me to verbalize to them properly.

[sionnsar]

Man, she certainly went out of fashion in a hurry, didn't she?

Who?

[AmericanMade1776]

wow!

[Loyalist]

Her 15 minutes of fame are now at 23 and counting.

[TXBubba]

Okay, I have a liberal "friend" who is Methodist and anti-semetic. Am I starting to see a pattern among Methodists here? Only liberal ones of course.

[GloriaJane]

Wish the Church's here in Columbus Oh would do the same thing!

Columbus Mennonite Church
35 Oakland Park Ave
COLUMBUS, OH 43214
614-784-9002

And...

First Unitarian Universalist Church
93 West Weisheimer Road
Columbus, OH 43214
http://www.firstuucolumbus.org
614-267-4946

[WVNan]

Git Along Home Cindy Cindy

I wish I was a press man,
Working on TV
I'd go right down to Crawford and
I'd make this simple plea:

Chorus:
Git along home, Cindy Sheehan,
Git along home.
Git along home, Cindy Sheehan.
You've made your point today. (Last line varies from verse to verse)

We know you lost a soldier;
We know he was your son.
We're sorry for your loss of course,
But, Cindy, life goes on

Chorus: To grieve another way.

You say you want the President
To tell you why he died.
But what's the good of talking when
You'll only say "Bush lied?"

Chorus: Give up the game you play.

You've made a lot of papers,
You've gained a lot of press.
It's good to know you've made your son
The key to your success.

Chorus: Your campaign's on the way.

Don't get me wrong, Ms. Sheehan.
We grieve along with you.
But thousands still support the war
and wear a Gold Star too.

Chorus: Let others have their say.

You've paid the price for freedom,
to protest is your right.
But your son's death is meaningless
if we give up the fight.

Chorus: It's time you went away

by Stray Pooch

[GloriaJane]

Sorry I forgot to say that those are the two Church's where cindy's protests are going to be here in Columbus Oh Thursday and Friday.

[WVNan]

Nope. Neither of those churches will silence her. Pacificts and liberals, in that order.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Our church should be for peace and for an open dialogue for discussing issues that affect us all, and hearing things firsthand," he said. "We should be an open society and continue to strive for that."

Then why invite Cindy "I have two minutes" Shaheen?

[GloriaJane]

Let's hope they have second thoughts like the others did.

[WVNan]

Because the UMC is a very split church now. It won't take much more to cause an open and permanent split. The conservatives have just about reached their last patience.

[WVNan]

Those two won't have second thoughts. Mennonites are pacifists and the Unitarians are ultra libs.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Maybe it's time for the Church to split. Who knows?