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The Consultation
Platform
The Consultation is a coalition of eleven independent
organizations in the Episcopal Church committed to peace with justice. We come
to the 2006 General Convention in We affirm the goodness of all
creation. • We join our voices with God, who, after completing all of
Creation said, “It is very good.” • We see the image of God in one another and in all of
Creation. • We are inextricably linked in an interdependent web of
Creation. We have sinned and fallen short of the
mark. • We fail to recognize the image of God and the Christ in
others and ourselves. • We have by our action and inaction perpetuated a culture
of greed, domination, and violence. • We in the Episcopal Church have been complicit in this
sin. We have allowed our governance to be
distorted. • We believe that all the baptized are called to share in
the governance and mission of the Church at all
levels. • We see the increase of power claimed by the episcopate as
an imbalance in the Body. • We compromise the church as sign and witness by not
sharing our resources. We reaffirm the promises of our Baptismal
Covenant •
to
continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and
in the prayers. • to persevere in resisting evil and, whenever we fall into
sin, to repent and return to the Lord. • to proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in
Christ. • to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our
neighbor as ourselves. • to strive for justice and peace among all people and to
respect the dignity of every human being. Therefore, we call the Church, gathered at this 2006
General Convention, to: 1. Continue the radical reformation of the
Church. • remove all canonical obstacles to exercising the full
baptismal ministry in the whole life of the Church. • conform
the canons to the baptismal theology of The
Book of Common Prayer. 2. Invest in economic justice and eliminate
poverty. • support the U.N. Millennium Development Goals fully,
including the 0.7% allocation of funds. • affirm worker justice, including the right to
unionize. • advocate for a living wage and health care for
all. • invest in economic justice to eliminate
poverty. • ask the Church Pension Group to provide equitable
retirement policies for women. 3. Make reparation for
slavery. •
commission
a report to describe the Church’s culpability, preserve this chapter of our
history, and make recommendations for compensation. •
support
public legislation and compensation. •
apologize
publicly for the Church’s role in this violation of basic human
rights. 4. Dismantle racism. •
call
upon every diocese to mandate anti-racism training. •
deepen
our commitment to inclusive representation on slates for leadership at all
levels of the Church. 5. End the culture of
violence •
work
for the end of violence against women and children throughout the
global village. •
work
to change federal budget priorities that fuel the culture of violence at
the expense health and welfare at home and peace
abroad. •
include
in appropriate responses. •
confess
the violence inherent in using language for worship that is not
inclusive, expansive, and hospitable. 6. Build a culture of
peace. •
call
for an end to the war in •
offer
training in creative peacemaking in every diocese. •
inform
our young people of the conscientious objector registry at the
Episcopal •
add
peace, justice, and nonviolence studies to the curricula of all Episcopal
schools, colleges, and seminaries. •
encourage
investment in enterprises that bring peace and prosperity to areas
of conflict.
7. Clarify our theology of marriage, family, and human
sexuality
•
oppose
the limitation of adoption and other civil contracts on the basis of
sexual
orientation or marital
status.
•
relieve
the clergy from their responsibility as civil magistrates in
marriage. •
reaffirm
that all orders of ministry are open to all the Baptized who are otherwise
qualified. 8. Promote environmental
justice •
mandate
detailed energy audits and conservation measures, including recycling, in all
Episcopal Church facilities and programs. •
commit
the Episcopal Church to purchasing electric power from renewable
sources. • call for the federal government to fund fully its
Environmental Protection Agency Superfund. • call upon our government to recommit to the Kyoto
Protocols. 9. Reflect our mission priorities in Program, Budget, and
Finance •
Urge
Program, Budget, and Finance to restore the original askings for mission and
economic justice programs. |
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