{"id":456,"date":"2006-03-11T22:43:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T22:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/unity_proposal.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","slug":"unity_proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/unity_proposal.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Unity Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the ICOC Unity Proposal Group has gotten their work done. The proposal has been drafted and is complete.
\nUnfortunately, you can’t see it yet.<\/strike> (EDIT: I guess it came out today<\/a>, 2 days earlier than intended but still several days after some recieved it.) It was sent out to certain church leaders and others. I’m not sure who got on the list and why. My minister evidently did not get it, or so it would seem from an email I received from him yesterday. I have a copy, but only because a friend got it off an anti-ICOC site where it had been published and sent it to me. I’ve only read as far as the first page introduction to see that it has explicit instructions against electronic distribution. So I closed it and will read it after it’s officially released, it says Monday the 13th. No offense to the brother who sent it to me, I just couldn’t in good conscience read it if the authors didn’t want it public yet, even if I think that’s silly.
\nBut I wonder, why all this secrecy and clandestine spreading the word to only certain leaders? Are only some leaders important enough to receive it in advance? If it was meant to go to all leaders and only did not because of a lack of contact info, do they mean to imply that the leaders are more important than the run-of-the-mill members?
\nOnce again we’ve managed to create a controversy over a side issue (distribution of the Proposal) that will distract and taint the actual debate on the proposal itself. It seems so silly, but maybe it’s just me.
\nI’ll be reading it this week as will the other deacons and our minister, I’m sure. I’ll be able to comment on the actual content then.
\nThough I have an opinion on whether we as a church will sign it, I’ll keep that to myself until it’s been read and debated. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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