Decision Number 1220

Decision

The bishop's decision of law is modified. A declaration by an annual conference to renounce a legislative act of the General Conference is not legal. But a declaration by an annual conference to express aspirations for full implementation of a legislative act by the General Conference is legal. The first stipulation in the resolution is not legal, but the ensuing three stipulations are legal. The invitation in the fourth stipulation applies only to those items in the resolution that are legal.

Beth Capen was absent. Sandra Lutz, first lay alternate, participated in this decision.