Comments on: How do we support our local Church leaders when they make mistakes? https://askgramps.org/how-do-we-support-our-local-church-leaders-when-they-make/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: KATHY https://askgramps.org/how-do-we-support-our-local-church-leaders-when-they-make/#comment-13 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:48:36 +0000 http://www.askgramps.org/how-do-we-support-our-local-church-leaders-when-they-make-mistakes/#comment-13 I am interested in the sustaining part. If we choose not to sustatin someone who is being called
to a calling and/or actually oppose the calling, (due to knowing they are not living the gospel)
are we not sustaining God, because the priesthood has been inspired to call that person?
I have looked and looked and the only thing I can find is that it is our right to sustain or not to sustain.
I also believe it is our right. Would love your thoughts on this. KATHY

Dear Kathy,

The opportunity to sustain or not by raising one’s hand in favor or against a proposition is by no means just a formality. A negative vote should never be made on the basis of such things as supposed ability or  personality. A negative vote would be cast solely on the basis of worthiness. If the person, for instance, was aware that the one being proposed for office was violating a principal of the gospel, that information may not be known by the responsible authorities, and it would then be proper to cast a negative vote.

In the case of such an action, the normal procedure would be for the presiding authority to turn the meeting over to another authority and immediately intervew the person casting the negative vote to determine the cause for such a vote. If the person’s objections were valid, the candidate would not be sustained in the office to which he was being called. If, on the other hand, the authority were to determine that the reason for the objection would not disqualify the candidate for the position to which he had been called, the negative vote would be discounted and the person would be sustained.

Gramps

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