TN Conference Voting

The voting results on the Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United Methodist Church from the Tennessee Annual Conference have just been released. Bishop Wills just read them aloud in session, so the totals I have listed below were typed in as he read them, and are accurate as far as I am aware. If somebody copied down different numbers we will have to check the official tally.

The voting totals from each annual conference are tabulated and added to the results from other annual conferences. There must be a 2/3 majority of votes from all annual conferences across the connection for these amendments to be adopted.

Here is a link to a PDF file of the proposed amendments.

The amendments were voted on individually, but allocated into five groups for the purposes of discussion on the floor of the conference. I have them listed below as such:

Group #- brief description
Amendment # (yes, no)

Group 1- Proposed Constitutional Amendments on the Worldwide Nature of the Church
4 (176, 458)
10 (177 yes, 466 no)
23 (176 yes, 456 no)
26 (173, 461)

Group 2- Proposed Constitutional Amendments on the Worldwide Nature of the Church (related name changes)
3 (177, 453)
5 (173, 456)
7 (176, 457)
11 (172, 457)
12 (176, 454)
13 (174, 458)
14 (177, 455)
16 (174, 457)
18 (178, 451)
20 (176, 454)
21 (177, 455)
24 (174, 457)
25 (178, 453)
27 (176, 455)
28 (177, 456)
29 (174, 454)
30 (171, 455)
31 (172, 454)
32 (170, 449)

Group 3- Amendment 1 Dealing with Paragraph 4 (Inclusivity)
1 (285, 340)

Group 4- Amendment 19 Dealing with Paragraph 35 (expansion of voting rights of Local pastors, Associate and Provisional Members)
19 (503, 138)

Group 5- Miscellaneous Amendments
2 (216, 409)
6 (222, 405)
8 (444, 189)
9 (422, 205)
15 (307, 323)
17 (374, 250)
22 (447, 176)

I will post again within 24 hours (Conference is still going on) with some thoughts on the voting and a few anecdotes from the discussion.