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Some may be aware that there was a vocal “No” vote during the sustaining of general Church officers in the afternoon session of General Conference yesterday. (Simply quietly raising the right hand to indicate a negative vote must have seemed too tame.)
I don’t know how many voted “No.” It might have been only one, but I’ve heard that there were five — and some gleeful apostates have exulted that there might have been as many as ten.
Since the Conference Center holds approximately 21,000 seats — I don’t know whether that figure includes choir seating and the seats of the general officers themselves — the proportion of dissenters in the audience seems to fall somewhere between 0.00005 on the high end and, at a minimum, 0.000005.
Accordingly, any suggestion that yesterday’s shouted “No” represents a mass outbreak of dissent and dissatisfaction within the active membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may perhaps be a tad overwrought.
And it might be helpful to know something about those who orchestrated the protest — for the opposition yesterday afternoon was, in fact, both orchestrated and a protest. I wrote about them a month ago:
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