The ACO Continues To Work Hard At Deceit—Check Out This Answer On the Standing Committee FAQ

from Stand Firm by Sarah Hey

From here:

Q. I have heard it said that some churches get more votes than others. Why is that?
In the Council as a whole, those churches with the highest number of churchgoers may send a bishop, a priest or deacon and a lay representative to the ACC; churches in the middle category by number of churchgoers send a priest or deacon and a lay person, and the smaller churches send one representative, preferably a lay person. But it does not follow that the larger churches are over-represented on the Standing Committee – several members of the present Standing Committee were elected by the plenary Council from the representatives of the smallest churches, and the Chair is from a Province in the middle-sized category.

This is patently false.

First of all, note the clever shimmy at the words "But it does not follow that the larger churches are over-represented . . . "

That, of course, is not at all the issue. So the answer begins with a lie -- that the larger churches are the ones that receive more representatives to the ACC -- and then continues on with a spin following the lie, implying that the concerning issue is that "the larger churches are over-represented."
The issue of concern is that the larger churches -- the ones that the ACO does not like -- are under represented, not that they are over-represented. The ACO well knows this. What a sham and a disgrace. Have they no shame? Do they imagine that nobody reads their propaganda and smiles over their attempts?

Really. This is ridiculous. It's brazen. It's public. And it's noted by more and more people. Do they really think that they can get away with this kind of contemptible pravdaesque rhetoric forever?

Here is a list of the participants at the last ACC meeting.

Jill Woodliff has helpfully put together a little chart noting the number of participants each Province received and how many members each province has. Of course, as we all know, the membership numbers are the most generously inflated for TEC itself.

Province # Representatives Membership statitics Members/Rep

Aotearoa, New Zealand, & Polynesia 4 584K 146K

Burundi 1 425K 425K

Canada 3 2,035K 678K

Central Africa 2 600K 300K

England 4 2,600K 650K

Ireland 2 410K 205K

Kenya 2 5,000K 2,500K

Nigeria 3 20,000K 6,666K

Pakistan 2 800K 400K

Rwanda 2 1,000K 500K

Scotland 2 53K 26K

South East Asia 1 98K 98K

South India 4 3,800K 950K

Southern Africa 3 3,500K 1,166K

Tanzania 3 2,500K 833K

Uganda 2 8,782K 4,391K

USA 3 2,285K 761K

West Africa 1 1,000K 1,000K