The Seventh-day Adventist Church's Inter-American Division's own news account of the General Conference Session vote held 8 July 2015 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Reports that delegates were asked, by secret ballot, whether division executive committees should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to ordain women to the gospel ministry within their own territories, and that the motion was defeated 1,381 to 977 with five abstentions. States that the motion had been prepared by General Conference officers and division presidents and approved for a vote at the 2014 Annual Council, and that Church President Ted N. C. Wilson told delegates that a General Conference Session's decisions carry the church's highest authority.
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A division of the denomination's own contemporary news account of a General Conference Session vote it reported on directly, tier 2 for a primary institutional report naming the exact date, location, motion and tally, corroborated independently by the Deseret News account below. NotesUsed for the exact 8 July 2015 date, the Alamodome location, the motion's wording and origin, and the 1,381 to 977 tally.
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PublisherSeventh-day Adventist Church, Inter-American Division
Publication Year2015
URLhttps://interamerica.org/2015/07/delegates-vote-no-on-issue-of-womens-ordination/
Source Typechurch body
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This source names Texas directly: "2015 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas."
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