The Acts of Convention

House of Deputies

Original Text of Resolution:

(A003)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That this 71st General Convention acknowledge that, as part of our own growing understanding of the complexity of the AIDS/HIV pandemic and the systemic nature of its modes of transmission, we participate in pervasive racism, sexism, and heterosexism that makes a direct contribution to the spread of AIDS/HIV, and that as a church we will work to affirm the necessity of accessible drug treatment, needle access, safer sex programs, and the affirmation of same-gender unions, and that we will press forward on a local, state and national level to ensure the dignity of every human being, particularly: women, adolescents, people of color, gay, lesbian and bisexual men and women, as well as working toward the adoption of federal civil rights legislation and the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Proposed Committee Substitute:

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That this 71st General Convention acknowledge, as part of our own growing understanding of the complexity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the systemic nature of its modes of transmission and our own inability to seek repentance of our prejudices that make a direct contribution to the spread of HIV/AIDS, that as a church we will work to affirm the necessity of accessible drug treatment, needle access, safe sex programs, and the affirmation of monogamy in all sexual relationships, and that we will press forward on local, state and national levels to ensure the dignity of every human being.

Deputy Mayo of Fort Worth filed a minority report.

Debate followed on the substitute to A003.

The question was called to terminate debate on the substitute on A003.

Motion carried

Debate terminated

A vote was taken on the substitute for A003.

Motion carried

Substitute resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #236)