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The Local SDA Conferenced typically has the authority to ban specific people from speaking in Churches. That is due in part to the fact that typic ally the Local Conference has ownership of the actual property in which the congregation meets. There are few situations in which the congregation is meeting on/in property that is not owned by the Local Conference. That raises issues that are not easily answered. In the end, the authority exists for a congregation to be expelled from the SDA Church. That is seldom done today outside of it being done for a lack of membership. I have personally been involved is such when the adults attending numbered 6 or 7, as I recall.

Years ago I had someone I work with tell me that their Church paid to have "Ron Jeremy" come to their Church to debate the queer pastor (of the Church) on the evils of porn. Ron Jeremy was arguing for porn and the queer pastor was arguing against it. I remember trying to process what I was being told and felt like it could cause me to have a stroke! I'm hoping that the governing body of SDA has the authority to ban certain people from speaking inside their Churches. Can you imagine having Ron Jeremy address your congregation while arguing the merits of porn while a buggerite pastor living with their same sex partner argues that porn is against the Christian experience?

The Bishop of Rome speaks, see: https://spectrummagazine.org/the-current/#pope-francis-migrants

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