I was changing the oil in my truck and listening to the Saturday session when this happened. At first I thought to myself "hey, they seem to have changed up the script a little" when Uchdorf kept saying "the vote has been noted." Then it dawned on me at the end when he mentioned that people with dissenting votes can speak with their Stake leaders that there had been actual dissenting votes.
I can't figure out exactly what they wanted by doing this. From the news accounts (AP did a blurb) it seems that they weren't an anti-Mormon group or anything, just a group of Mormons generally upset that the Church still opposes gay marriage and women in the priesthood. In which case, I would think, they would simply abstain from sustaining votes, not cast actual dissenting votes.
My thoughts were always that a dissenting vote had more to do with the individual and knowledge of his circumstances more than simple disagreement with doctrine or policy. Like, if you knew the guy they just called as Young Men's president was a child molester in his previous ward or something. In which case you would follow up your dissenting vote with the Bishop, who may or may not know about something like that.
Anyway, it was interesting at least. Once in a lifetime kind of thing.
There were some people who were part of it on twitter. I saw 2 or 3 of them, not a single one of them identified as LDS. They identified as atheists.Statistics: Posted by hawkwing — Sun Apr 05, 2015 6:02 pm
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