Decision Number 1293

Decision

The Bishop's decision of law is modified. The modification deletes all of the Bishop's "substantive" ruling beginning with the word "Therefore…" and all of his commentary, except for the point that he expressed in the following judgment

  …to declare this request for a ruling of law as inappropriately moot and hypothetical because it was not     an item related to any business undertaken during the 2014 annual conference, but legislation addressed   in a previous annual conference session.

Beth Capen was absent.

Warren Plowden, third lay alternate, participated in this decision.