JCD 1173

http://archives.umc.org/interior_judicial.asp?mid=263&JDID=1293&JDMOD=VWD&SN=1100&EN=1189

Iowa Conference established rules that restricted campaigning for General Conference for delegates and resolutions. Someone was concerned that the restrictions were too strong and in violation of the Discipline. While the Council was very spare in affirming the bishop’s rulings that they were legal under the Discipline, Beth Capen again provides church law readers with more insight into the issues and circumstances, concluding with the advice that as long as the people passing out literature outside conference allow people to be able to avoid them if they wish and as long as the conference avoids certain requirements that inhibit candidates in conference-sponsored events and processes, the restrictions passed were appropriate.