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GA06032
13 commissioners' resolutions sent to committees Social justice, ecumenical and interfaith relations dominate requests
by John Sniffen
BIRMINGHAM, June 16 * The Assembly Committee on Bills and Overtures has assigned 13 commissioners' resolutions to Assembly committees for consideration.
Five of the resolutions were sent to the Committee on Social Justice Issues. They include: declaring suicide bombing a crime against humanity; raising the federal minimum wage; calling Presbyterians to take positive and immediate steps to live "carbon-neutral lives"; abandoning mountaintop removal of coal; and adopting a program of the Mennonite Central Committee that seeks the return of unidentifiable remains of American aboriginal peoples.
The Committee on Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations will consider three resolutions. They involve supporting the Presbyterian accompaniment program in Colombia; celebrating and protecting the church's partnership with the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Cuba; and supporting the request of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines for a full inquiry into the murders of 18 of its pastors and church workers by paramilitary forces.
The Committee on General Assembly Procedures will address two resolutions. One seeks to amend the church's open meeting law to have place and time information posted on the PC(USA) Web site before meetings and to make all materials available to observers; the other seeks financial reports on the projected and actual costs of General Assembly task forces or work groups.
Also receiving two resolutions is the Committee on Mission Coordination and Budgets. One asks that the moderator convene a meeting to develop an understanding of the PC(USA)'s worldwide mission work; the second asks that the Women's Ministries Program Area include a diverse, yet Reformed, range of theological viewpoints in its job requirements, consistent with the church's constitution.
The Committee on Health Issues will consider a resolution asking the church to support the closing of a landfill in East New Orleans because its toxic contents will be a threat to the community that was largely abandoned due to Hurricane Katrina.
Any two commissioners may propose a commissioners' resolution in writing for Assembly consideration. No commissioner may sign more than two resolutions, and the resolutions cannot contain business that requires an amendment to or interpretation of the church's constitution. The deadline for receiving commissioners' resolutions was Friday at 1 p.m.
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