The Acts of Convention
| Resolution Number: | 1979-D006 | |
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| Title: | Encourage Conscientious Objectors to Register With the Church | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Substituted | |
| Final Text: | ||
Resolved, That this 66th General Convention encourage young Episcopalians who consider themselves to be conscientious objectors to war to register that belief with the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church in the Register maintained for this purpose since 1940, and with the National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors; and be it further
Resolved, That this 66th General Convention acknowledge this Church's ministry to provide pastoral counseling for young persons if faced with a resumption of the draft or draft registration; and be it further
Resolved, That this 66th General Convention calls upon the Executive Council to provide adequate resources to implement and maintain an ongoing program of draft counseling for young people if faced with a resumption of the draft.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 1979 (New York: General Convention, 1980), p. C-102. |
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