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25-June-2000
GA00038

	Twenty-three commissioner resolutions referred to committees

	by Nancy D. Borst

LONG BEACH, June 25-  Thirty commissioners' resolutions were submitted to
the Committee on Bills and Overtures Sunday evening.  Twenty-three of them
were referred to committees of the 212th General Assembly.

	Any two commissioners may propose a resolution, considered an item of new
business. The stated clerk then recommends to Bills and Overtures where each
resolution should be referred. Resolutions also may be declined for
consideration, referred to a subsequent Assembly or simply have no action
taken on them.

	The committee concurred with Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick's
recommendations with the exception of one resolution. That was resolution
00-25, on expressing concern for women in the Southern Baptist Church,
particularly those who seek to be pastors. Rather than refer it to the
Committee on Church Orders and Ministry as recommended, Bills and Overtures
instead voted unanimously to refer the overture to Catholicity and
Ecumenical Relations.

	Seven resolutions were declined for consideration by the committee, in
accordance with the clerk's recommendation. Three of those violated the
stipulation that proposed amendments to the constitution of the PC(USA) must
be submitted to the Assembly 120 days before it convenes. Two were declined
because their issues had been brought before one of the past two assemblies.
One was an issue already before the Assembly in an overture and one had
already been referred to next year's Assembly.

	The largest number of resolutions in one category came in the area of
women's concerns. Five resolutions addressed such issues in one way or
another.

Details of the commissioners' resolutions will be reported as the committees
act upon them.

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