The Acts of Convention

House of Deputies

Original Text of Resolution:

(D043)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 70th General Convention urge the Dioceses to establish Diocesan committees to be charged with an agenda whose objective and focus will be the combatting of racism in the following areas:

Prayer and Worship--encourage the establishment of prayer groups and support groups around the theme of combatting racism.

Planning and Funding--ensure that funding and planning structures affirm racial equality in all diocesan staffs, committees and commissions.

Deployment--support and actively work to assure that parishes who have never considered minority clergy for vacancies do so.

Recruitment--actively recruit and support minority candidates in their progress from postulancy to ordination.

Education--prepare educational material to provide parishes with an educational series on the nature of racism that will acknowledge racism as a sin and will work toward eliminating its existence in the Church.

Affirmative Action--conduct a racial audit to determine where minority persons are in the Diocesan structures and parishes to determine if they are present on all Diocesan committees and vestries in proportion to their presence in the Church.

Proposed Committee Amendment:

Delete the words "Affirmative Action" and add the words "Racial Survey."

After the words "conduct a racial," delete the words "audit" and add the word "survey."

Deputy Ota of Hawaii moved an amendment to Resolution D043.

Proposed Amendment:

After the words "the diocesan," add the word "clergy"

After the word "church," add "and the larger community."

Deputy Anderson of Michigan requested division of the Ota amendment.

A vote was taken on the first part of the Ota amendment.

Motion defeated

Amendment defeated

A vote was taken on the second part of the Ota amendment.

Motion defeated

Ota amendment defeated

Deputy Coyne of Western Massachusetts moved an amendment to Resolution D043.

Proposed Amendment:

In line 2, delete the words "to establish Diocesan Committees."

Deputy Coyne withdrew his amendment.

Deputy Pollard of New York moved a substitute to the Coyne amendment.

Proposed Amendment:

In place of the first Resolved substitute:

That the 70th General Convention urge each Diocese to implement and to strengthen initiatives with all congregations in the diocese toward becoming a church of and for all races and a church without racism committed to end racism in the world, and that these initiatives include (but not be limited to):

The Committee accepted the Pollard amendment.

Deputy Hoston of Maryland moved an amendment to Resolution D043.

Proposed Amendment:

[In "Planning and Funding"]

Between the words "racial" and "all," delete the words "equality in."

Between the words "in" and "all," add "equity in appointments to and funding of."

A vote was taken on the Hoston amendment.

Motion carried

Hoston amendment adopted

Deputy Sorvillo of Central Florida moved an amendment to Resolution D043.

Proposed Amendment:

Following the word "recruitment," delete the words from "support" through "ordination."

Add the words: "Recognize the calling of the Holy Spirit to all minority candidates for ordained ministry and actively support them in their progress from postulancy to ordination."

A vote was taken on the Sorvillo amendment.

Motion defeated

Sorvillo amendment defeated

A vote was taken on Resolution D043 as amended.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted with amendment

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #201)