Who Votes at General Conference?

Friends,

What Annual Conference will have the largest delegation at the 2008 General Conference? Looks to me like the Nigerian Annual Conference beats out the largest U.S. delegation. Nigeria will have 44 delegates compared to the largest U.S. Annual Conference which is Virginia with only 30. The second largest delegation in the General Conference is also from Africa--the North Katanga Conference (in Congo) with 38 delegates.

Nigeria, as you may know, is also the home of the Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola, who has called for draconian legislation criminalizing homosexuality in Nigeria, and denying gay persons the freedoms of speech, association and assembly. The voting power of African delegations at the United Methodist General Conference has been credited with the continuance of anti-LGBT policies of the United Methodists in the United States.

Here's a link to the delegate distribution for the 2008 General Conference.