Methodists opposing locating the Bush Presidential Library and a related "think tank" at Southern Methodist University are not yet ready to declare victory. But momentum is with them.

The controvery has captured international media attention -- as well as that of leaders and members of the United Methodist Church, which owns the school. George and Laura Bush are both members of the denomination, and Mrs. Bush sits on the SMU board of trustees that has been leading the effort place the half billion dollar monument to her husband's presidency on the campus.

But opponents have organized an online petition drive of Methodists against the Bush complex:

"We now have as signatories fourteen Bishops in the United Methodist Church, the past President of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, two Superintendents in the British Methodist Church, over 600 United Methodist clergy, and more than nine thousand members of churches from across the United States and Canada," said the Reverend Andrew Weaver, the SMU alum who organized the petition.