# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1971_S169
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RESOLUTIONS 169

conditions, building programing, and various phases
of building and planning of construction of any
structure, new or remodeled.

Action: Adopted (17).

To Decline to Define Conflict of Interest
RESOLUTION 5-43

Overture 5-86 (CW, pp. 274—275)

Wuereas, This overture predicates its decision on
Bylaws 2.12 and 3.37 in the Handbook; and

Wuereas, The overture misconstrues the intent and
concept of stated Bylaws 2.12 and 3.37; and

Wuereas, The concerns of Overture 5-86 have been

satisfied by Resolution 5-23 (TB, p. 244) of this con-
vention; therefore be it

Resolved, That Overture 5-86 be declined.

Action: Referred under omnibus resolution to Board
of Directors for study and report to next convention.

To Decline to Revise Procedures
for Electing Delegates

RESOLUTION 5-44
Overtures 5-13, 5-15 (CW, pp. 255—256)

Wuereas, Article V of the Synod’s Constitution gives
membership in the Synod to “congregations, ministers
of the Gospel, and teachers of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church who confess and accept the confessional basis
of Article II”; and

Wuereas, All organized congregations that have
joined the Synod hold voting membership; and

Wuereas, The congregations should have the direct
privilege and responsibility of providing the delegate to
the synodical convention; and

Wuereas, No cogent reason has been shown for
changing the present procedure for electing delegates
to the synodical convention; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod refrain from changing the
method of electing delegates to the synodical convention.

Action: Same as above.

To Decline Overture 5-29 (Leaving
to the Discretion of Certain Synodical
Officers Acceptance of Overtures on Social,
Political, and Economic Subjects)

RESOLUTION 5-45
Overture 5-29 (CW, p. 259)

Wuereas, The Synod’s Bylaws (1.27c) provide:
“Overtures requesting the Synod to take action which
is in conflict with the Constitution or Bylaws of the
Synod or in matters for which the Constitution or By-
laws have provided specific procedures; which contain
defamatory allegations; or overtures which may subject
the President of the Synod or the Synod to civil actions

for libel or slander, shall not be published or presented
to any floor committee or to the convention; nor shall
any overture be accepted with reference to any case in-
volving suspension, expulsion, or appeals”; and

Wuereas, It is unwise to grant to officers of Districts
or the Synod additional powers at this time to prevent
overtures from coming before the convention; therefore
be it

Resolved, That we refrain from accepting Overture
5-29.

Action: Same as above.

To Change Election Procedure of President
and First Vice-President
RESOLUTION 5-46
Overtures 5-02, 5-30—5-35 (CW, pp. 245—246, 259—261)

Wuerras, The Denver convention instructed the
President, with the concurrence of the Council of Presi-
dents, to appoint an ad hoc committee to study the elec-
tion procedures for President and First Vice-President,
which committee presents its recommendations to this
convention (1971 CW, p. 245); therefore be it

Resolved, That we adopt the proposed changes of
the Synod’s Bylaws on election procedures as submitted
by the ad hoc committee on pages 245—246 (see below);
and be it further

Resolved, That similar provisions may be adopted by
the Districts (cf. Handbook, 3.31) of the Synod in the
election of District Presidents and First Vice-Presidents;
and be it further

Resolved, That, in the light of the “Statement on
Ethics” adopted by this convention (TB, Resolution
5-23, p. 244), groups and individuals within and without
the Synod refrain from circularizing the Synod or areas
thereof, relative to favoritism in nominations for Presi-
dent and First Vice-President; and be it finally

Resolved, That the Commission on Constitutional
Matters add the necessary paragraphs to Bylaw 2.39
(Duties of the Secretary) and Bylaw 2.121 (Committee
on Elections), which paragraphs shall concern them-
selves with the tabulation of the congregational ballots
for President and First Vice-President, and a paragraph
to Bylaw 2.127 expressing the concern voiced in the
third resolved above.

I. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND BOARDS
(No changes proposed for 2.121, 2.123, 2.125)

2.127 Nominations for President and First Vice-
President

Nominations for the office of President and First
Vice-President of the Synod shall be made in the
following manner:

a. Each voting congregation shall be entitled to
nominate one clergyman from the clergy roster of
the Synod as a candidate for President and one
clergyman as a candidate for First Vice-President.

b. The Secretary of the Synod shall mail to each
voting congregation of the Synod ballots for nomi-
nating these candidates.