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Resolution Number: 2000-A052
Title: Combat Oppression Tied to HIV/AIDS
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention of the Episcopal Church encourage the church at every level to combat the oppression of people based on race, gender, and sexual orientation. This oppression contributes directly to the spread of HIV/AIDS and hinders the effective prevention, education, treatment, and access to services for HIV/AIDS; and be it further

Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention of the Episcopal Church, as a response to the continuing pandemic of HIV/AIDS, call the church to preach, pray for, and pursue: justice, care for bodies and souls, prevention education, sound public policy, fairness in the church workplace, and collaboration in our individual and corporate responses to HIV/AIDS.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 220.