Delegates wanted a ballot (not a voice vote) on MLS, plus publication of the vote count. They got the ballot but not the vote count. How difficult would that have been?
Perhaps a vote count would have encouraged the pro-school delegates too much if they saw the level of support for MLS.
WELS conventions are controlled and manipulated by The Love Shack. For instance, they called an emergency convention to buy the Prairie du Chien campus. They just had to have that campus, so the New Ulm prep school could move. They got their way, moved the campus to a place where there were very few WELS Lutherans. The New Ulm area immediately built an area Lutheran high school. Prairie was eventually merged with Northwestern Prep to become Martin Luther Prep.
At one point WELS talked about abandoning the very campus at PdC they just had to have. While they were cutting Prairie loose, they spent about $500,000 on a new music building.
So why are delegates wary? Don't they trust the Holy Spirit?
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Thursday, August 2, 2007
Delegates Asked for MLS Ballot and Vote Count
