Some Useful History
In 2011, at the ever-progressive North American Division year end meeting, the NAD excomm voted to alter the General Conference E-60 policy that defines the qualifications for Conference & Mission presidents.
They changed the qualification from ordained to ordained/commissioned, so they could start shoehorning women into conference president roles—creating a WO-by-hostile-takeover strategy throughout the NAD.
This action got shot down by the Seventh-day Adventist legal counsel who said:
“Divisions do not have Constituencies, in that they are all (that is, the Divisions) parts of the same General Conference “whole” therefore they must act in harmony with the policies of the world church. In other words, Divisions do not have the independent right to develop policies which are out of harmony with the General Conference Model Constitution or voted General Conference Working Policy. While all Divisions have the authority to develop and implement policies related to their field, they may not act independently when it comes to voted General Conference policies.”
In other words, the North American Division had acted beyond its authority in modifying its working policy to include commissioned (women) ministers as candidates for presidents of local conferences and missions.
The NAD sought their own legal counsel (can you imagine the general level of apostasy required to use lawyers to argue Bible’s teachings on male leadership?) and were told that the North American Division Executive Committee does not have the right to establish policies which are out of harmony with the General Conference Model Constitution or General Conference Working Policy. That settled it.
Dan Jackson issued an apology letter on January 31, 2012 to NAD constituents and the SDA world church. They subsequently changed their E-60 policy back to ‘ordained’ only.
Texas
As previously reported by Fulcrum7, the Texas Conference seeks to change its conference president requirements to gender-neutral language on Sunday May 16. This is in response to a top-down lust for women’s ordination flowing from the NAD to its unions and conferences.
Such a move violates the GC E 60 policy which states that only ordained ministers can be conference presidents. Since 2012, the NAD has kept their E-60 policy the same as the GC. This means that the Texas Conference proposed bylaws change is out of policy with the NAD (although in harmony with their spirit of rebellion) by making these changes to its constitution.
Dear Delegates
Texas Conference delegates, please vote this proposed change down. Gender-neutral madness is reflective of the culture around us, not of the Holy Bible which makes complementary distinctions between the roles of men and women.
It would also further fracture our world church into fragmented pockets of rebellion. Ecclesiastical gender dysphoria is still gender dysphoria.
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“God sets the lonely in families, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.” (Psalm 68:6).