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It’s 2:15pm, I’m sitting in the HOD. This place can be really disorienting if you’ve never been to General Convention before. I’ve never been to General Convention before so I’m quite disoriented.

They are going through a process now called “dispatch of business.”

FW+ is at the podium introducing A159 now in fact. I’m glad I’m here.

FW+ notes a typograpgical error.

This resolution is the essential beginning to our answer to the Windsor report. It is basic to all that follows. The fourth resolve goes further than the others by suggesting a specific way of moving forward in communion.

Don Gern: I hope we understand the implications of this.

Harmon: I share the same concerns and I wish to underscore the phrase “abiding commitment”. The AC is in the process of changing. It is moving south. Lists some growth stats from the global south. If we say that we have this commitment I hope we mean it.

Glasspoole: I rise in strong support of this resolution. It has been a pleasure to watch the SCECAC deliberate. It is our desire to make a strong statement to our commitment to communion. I urge your support for this res.

Eastwood: I want to offer an amendment. The first resolve: following the word possible, “consistent with the separate historic status.”

Seconded.

Discussion of amendment

Eastwood resumes: It is our desire to strengthen this statement by noting that the positionfrom which we come flows from the freedom we have as an independent body.

Eastwood: I want to offer an amendment. The first resolve: following the word possible, “consistent with the independant, separate historic status.”

Seconded.

Discussion of amendment

Eastwood resumes: It is our desire to strengthen this statement by noting that the positionfrom which we come flows from the freedom we have as an independent body.

???: I oppose this resolution. It is redundant.

Wipper: I rise to speak against the amendment. WE need to let the Spirit work to do a new thing if he wants.

Current: the amendment says we want to be part of the Anglican Communion on our own terms. WE want to do what we want to do without consultation

??? The word Possible which exists make the amendment unnecessary

Colorado: Everything I’ve heard says we are interdependent. This amendment speaks against it.

Lehman: I support the amendment. The AC has always been comprised of independent provinces. It is extremely important at this time that we remember that our provincial entities are autonomous…

Chair: Reads the amendment: “Consistent with the historic separate and independent status of the churches …”

Someone moves to move closure for resolution:

Seconded:

2/3rds vote required

No’s have it.

Debate is open.

Another speaker: I move to close on the amendment:
Second

Vote:

Aye’s have it

Someone calls the question

Vote on the amendment: Amendment fails

Discussion returns to the original resolution

Another amendment: line 13: following the word trust, add the word “autonomy”

Motion seconded.
Line would read
“Characterized by forbearance trust autonomy and respect”

Harmon: I want to speak against this amendment. We keep hearing these words like “autonomy” and “independence” it is as if the eye is saying “I have no need of you” from the start. We are taking a posture of self-assertion which I think is the opposite of what we should do.

???I oppose the amendment. The word autonomy is inconsistent with the spirit of that part of the phrase which speaks to a desire for unity and communion. Asserting autonomy here is inconsistent with this resolution.

Loiuse: from FL. To put autonomy there looks like an oxymoron

Ian Douglas: I oppose the amendment. This language of forbearance… already helps accomplish what the amendment wants to say. The words trust and respect are to be celebrated. I urge the house to vote against the amendment.

Cavalll: I rise to speak in favor of the amendment. I was in the diocese of Chinchese of Ughanda and knowing I was coming here, I had some conversations with the bishop of that diocese. He was afraid that our action would be coercive. I believe by inserting this reference to autonomy we speak to that fear. We view our sisters and brothers as equally autonomous.


Mayo: I speak against the amendment. From the beginning it has been obvious that the provinces have been autonomous. This is unnecessary and it gives the feeling of separating while being part of the communion the same time.

Original person who offered amendment: This simply describes the nature of our historic relationship. Any healthy relationship is characterized by both autonomy and interdependence.

Call question:

Question called. The amendment is defeated.

We return to the original resolution.

???? I call the question

Second

The Ayes have it.

The question is called.

Vote on the resolution on A159:

The resolution is adopted

A159, the first SCECAC motions has passed the HOD.

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