Comment on Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference by Sean Pitman.
When it comes to setting policy, this doesn’t appear to me to be true. Policy decisions are determined by the GC in session (which isn’t “top-down” dictatorial rule since the GC in session is made up of hundreds of delegates from around the world representing a bottom-up decision making process). And, these policies, determined by the world church in session, must be recognized and followed by all other organizations within the church government – according to the bylaws of all of these various levels of organization.
It seems to me like you’ve perhaps made assumptions and come to conclusions about church governance that just aren’t true. Certainly your comments about Mrs. White’s position on this topic don’t seem to be accurate…
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LOL 😉
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Thanks…
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I still fail to see an explicit statement forbidding the ordination of women pastors here…
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Thank you Colin. Just trying to save lives any way I can. Not everything that the government does or leaders do is “evil” BTW…
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Only someone who knows the future can make such decisions without being a monster…
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I fail to see where you have convincingly supported your claim that the GC leadership contributed to the harm of anyone’s personal religious liberties? – given that the GC leadership does not and could not override personal religious liberties in this country, nor substantively change the outcome of those who lost their jobs over various vaccine mandates. That’s just not how it works here in this country. Religious liberties are personally derived. Again, they simply are not based on a corporate or church position, but rely solely upon individual convictions – regardless of what the church may or may not say or do.
Yet, you say, “Who cares if it is written into law”? You should care. Everyone should care. It’s a very important law in this country. The idea that the organized church could have changed vaccine mandates simply isn’t true – particularly given the nature of certain types of jobs dealing with the most vulnerable in society (such as health care workers for example).
Beyond this, the GC Leadership did, in fact, write in support of personal religious convictions on this topic – and there are GC lawyers who have and continue to write personal letters in support of personal religious convictions (even if these personal convictions are at odds with the position of the church on a given topic). Just because the GC leadership also supports the advances of modern medicine doesn’t mean that the GC leadership cannot support individual convictions at the same time. Both are possible. This is not an inconsistency.
