ICJ Number 7

Decision

It is the decision of the Interim Judicial Council that the action of the Uniting Conference which provides that a lay pastor may not be elected by his charge as lay member of an Annual Conference is not in violation of the Constitution, and that the similar action which provides that a minister's spouse may not be elected by a charge as a lay member is in violation of the Constitution and is therefore void.

May 3, 1968

MURRAY H. LEIFFER

Vice President, Interim Judicial Council

J. RUSSELL THROCKMORTON Secretary, Interim Judicial Council

(Paul R. Ervin, Leon E. Hickman and Samuel W. Witwer were absent.)