# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S268
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

268 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

to be ‘ta formulation which derives its authority from the Word
of God and which expresses the Synod's position on current
doctrinal issues” (1973 Proceedings. p. 128): therefore be it

Resolved. That the Synod ask all its elected and appointed
officials, both holdovers and those elected at this convention
‘Anaheim, 1975), whether they sincerely intend to honor, up-
hold, and accept A Statement of Scriptural and Confessional
Principles and carry out their official duties in accordance with
it: and be it further

Resolved. That, should any synodical official not wish to
indicate such intention, he then be requested to resign his office
so that another may be selected in his place.

St. Paul's Lutheran Church

Bremen, Ind.

William E. Helmlinger, Chairman pro-tem
Dan L. Miller, Secretary

Raymond A. Mueller, Pastor

Identical or similar:
35-176B

Trinity, New Haven, Mo. Orville Meyer

5-177
To Set Aside All Actions Resulting
from Abolition of Two-Thirds Voting

Procedure

At the New Orleans convention a motion was passed to
eliminate the two-thirds vote requirement.

According to Robert's Rules of Order. such a vote itself
required a two-thirds majority to pass.

When the vote was tabulated as given in the Proceedings
(pp. 30, 34, 128), it was a simple majority. The parliamentarian
declared the vote valid. The CCM has upheld the validity of his
ruling contrary to accepted parliamentary practice.

Because of this irregularity havoc has been turned loose in
the Synod when subsequently Resolutions 3-01, “A Statement”:
3-09, “Faculty Majority in Error”: and 3-12A, “The Tietjen
Matter" were passed: therefore

We ask the Anaheim convention to review this matter:

We further ask that the convention declare all actions as
listed above (3-01, 3-09, 3-12A) be declared illegally passed and
rescind them.

Trinity Lutheran Church
Schenectady, N.Y.
Arthur Hawlicheck, Pastor

3-178A

To Disallow Certain Overtures from
Southeastern District

WHEREAS, We the members of The Lutheran Church — Mis-
souri Synod have agreed to work together in mission for our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the church: and

WHEREAS, God would have everything be done decently
and in order: and

WHEREAS, Through the years our Synod has expressed and
acted in an orderly way through our Constitution and Bylaws:
and

WHEREAS, Bylaw 1.27 ¢ states in partim: ‘nor shall any
overture be accepted with reference to any case involving
suspension, expulsion, or appeals’’: therefore be it

Resolved, That Resolutions 6-6 (‘Suspension of Charges’),
6-12 (Certification of Seminex Students for the School Year
1974-75") and 7-3 (‘To Declare Resolution 2-12 [New Orleans]
Null and Void") adopted at the Southeastern District Conven-
tion, Richmond, Va., April 19 — 22, 1974, be declared invalid to be
received by the appropriate floor committee of the synodical
convention at Anaheim, Calif., because they involve matters
that are under appeal and a matter of suspension.

Trinity Lutheran Church
Bowie, Md.

Glen Renn Jr., Chairman
Betty Jackson, Secretary

Identical or similar:

5-178B

Immanuel, Conover, N. C. Paul Reuter