"Solemn Assembly"

Post by **_harmony** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:38 pm

moksha wrote:... a person of color?

For a penguin, you're pretty funny.

Post by **_moksha** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:28 am

harmony wrote:
moksha wrote:... a person of color?

For a penguin, you're pretty funny.

Merely drawn that way.

Post by **_ludwigm** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:03 pm

Scottie wrote:I have never, ever seen someone not support a calling.

Great Moments in Mormon History wrote:

From the research of church historian Michael C. Quinn in The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power:
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Oct 6, 1907 - At sustaining of church officers a man votes against Joseph F Smith because of his admitted violation of Utah's cohabitation law. Smith has him ejected from Salt Lake Tabernacle.
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Post by **_solomarineris** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:25 pm

Scottie wrote:I have never, ever seen someone not support a calling.

Well,
haven't you missed a great spectacle?
In 1980, My ex-wife (then) very active we went to Fall Grosskreutz in Tabernacle.
I don't exactly remember who was presiding, his voice booming with Prophets, seers, revelators.
As he asked "Any opposed?", few seats behind 4-5 hands strongly lifted up shouting "We are".
Afterwards the silence was deafening. People around us (including us) looked lost. Few seconds later
a couple bouncers arrived from nowhere and ushered them out.

Post by **_beastie** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:49 pm

I saw a no vote once, and the person was invited into the SP's office afterwards. I do not know if it was in order to find out WHY he voted no, or to chastise him.

Post by **_Jason Bourne** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:34 pm

A Solemn Assembly is always done in GC when a new prophet and church pres is sustained. It starts in order of quorum with each quorum sustaining the new president. They start with Qof 12 and work down. When Pres Hinckley was sustained they also, I think for the first time had the YW stand separately and sustained him and also the Relief Society sisters. Then the whole church stands and sustains the new president.

Post by **_malkie** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:14 pm

beastie wrote:I saw a no vote once, and the person was invited into the SP's office afterwards. I do not know if it was in order to find out WHY he voted no, or to chastise him.

Once when I was a BP in Scotland a brother voted "no" on a sustaining vote.

While the SM talks were being given, I interviewed the brother, who told me that he had seen the sister smoking just a few days earlier. I re-interviewed the sister, and she admitted that she had been smoking, but said that she had decided to stop when I called her as Primary Pres. (I wished that she had told me that at the time, but - whatever!)

I advised the brother that the issue was resolved, and re-presented the sister's name at the end of SM - no objections.

[by the way, though she was only 18 at the time, that sister was probably the best Primary Pres the branch ever had - nothing to do with me, she was just a great person. I just lucked out in calling her]