JCD 1170

http://archives.umc.org/interior_judicial.asp?mid=263&JDID=1290&JDMOD=VWD&SN=1100&EN=1189

Questions of law from another conference in the Philippines relate to re-election of trustees. The people raising the questions also asked for a declaratory decision by the Council on the same matter. The Council accepted the questions of law but not the request that had been voted on.

I always thought the higher the vote count, the more it impacted the attention of the Council. I guess that rule of thumb may still be operative except in the unusual situation where the same concerns are raised using both channels to the Council.

The Discipline does not disallow Trustees from succeeding themselves. That seems so obvious that one wonders why the question was raised, especially in a conference whose culture is different. I wish someone would have given the back-story in a concurring opinion as has sometimes been done in the past. Or maybe not….