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Resolution Number: 1994-D007
Title: Amend Canon III.4.1 [Equal Access to Ordination Process]
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That Title III, Canon 4 be amended by adding a new sentence to Section 1 as follows:

No one shall be denied access to the selection process for ordination in this Church because of race, color, ethnic origin, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, disabilities or age, except as otherwise specified by these Canons. No right to ordination is hereby established.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, 1994 (New York: General Convention, 1995), pp. 811-12.

 
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