{"id":19304,"date":"2015-04-05T09:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19304"},"modified":"2015-04-05T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T15:57:41","slug":"on-the-no-vote-during-yesterdays-sustaining-of-general-church-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/04\/on-the-no-vote-during-yesterdays-sustaining-of-general-church-officers.html","title":{"rendered":"On the &#8220;No&#8221; vote during yesterday&#8217;s sustaining of general Church officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19305\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/LDS_Conference_Center-up.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19305\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/04\/LDS_Conference_Center-up-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"LDS Conference Center SLC UT\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Conference Center of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>, in Salt Lake City, Utah<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some may be aware that there was a vocal \u201cNo\u201d vote during the sustaining of general Church officers in the afternoon session of General Conference yesterday. \u00a0(Simply quietly raising the right hand to indicate a negative vote must have seemed too tame.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know how many voted \u201cNo.\u201d \u00a0It might have been only one, but I\u2019ve heard that there were five \u2014 and some gleeful apostates have exulted that there might have been as many as ten.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the Conference Center holds approximately 21,000 seats \u2014 I don\u2019t know whether that figure includes choir seating and the seats of the general officers themselves \u2014 the proportion\u00a0of dissenters in the audience seems to fall somewhere between 0.00005 on the high end and, at a minimum, 0.000005.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, any suggestion that yesterday\u2019s shouted \u201cNo\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it might be helpful to know something about those who orchestrated the protest \u2014 for the opposition yesterday afternoon was, in fact, both orchestrated and a protest. \u00a0I wrote about them a month ago:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/opposing-church-leadership-at-the-next-general-conference.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/opposing-church-leadership-at-the-next-general-conference.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Some may be aware that there was a vocal \u201cNo\u201d vote during the sustaining of general Church officers in the afternoon session of General Conference yesterday. \u00a0(Simply quietly raising the right hand to indicate a negative vote must have seemed too tame.) \u00a0 I don\u2019t know how many voted \u201cNo.\u201d \u00a0It might have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On the &quot;No&quot; 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