Day 4 – June 26, 2024 – Part Three
We resumed business at 7 pm. The credentials committee shared updated numbers of deputies; however, I was busy finishing some delicious pizza that a dear colleague got for the deputation and thus… did not hear the numbers in any useful manner.
The House voted to suspend the rules and treat the auxiliary calendar as the Consent Calendar II. It was quickly adopted.
We then heard from the chair of the Social Justice & International Policy Committee regarding D056 – Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza. The committee disagreed with the changes made by the House of Bishops, which removed the word “genocide” from the original resolution. The committee instead asks the House to consider the version as presented here. There were several powerful speakers. We then heard a proposed amendment. The amendment would strike the language added back into the resolution that had been removed by the House of Bishops. There was again powerful discussion on the amendment. We prayed and then voted on the amendment. The amendment was adopted.
We then voted on the resolution, in the form passed by the House of Bishops. It passed with 91% of the vote. That was followed by prayer.
We then moved to A072 – Amend Article X of the Constitution of The Episcopal Church [Of the Book of Common Prayer — Second Reading]. There was very serious debate about this change, which must be approved by orders. There was much serious discussion, but it passed.
Adjourned for day.
