Adopted May 6, 2006
Resolution 2006-12
RESOLVED, that the 222nd Convention of the Diocese of Maryland, meeting May 5-6, 2006, calls upon the 75th General Convention to establish a Task Force to study, document, and report on the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, the legacy of slavery, and the establishment of systematic and institutional racism within the United States of America; and
BE IF FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Task Force specifically research and report on the historical role of the Episcopal Church in these systems of slavery and racism, so that we as a people of God can come to make a full, faithful and informed accounting of the legacy we inherit and better understand how we can work, both individually and collectively, to “repair the breach”; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Task Force specifically research and report on the historical role of the Episcopal Church in these systems of slavery and racism, so that we as a people of God can come to make a full, faithful and inform ed accounting of the legacy we inherit and better understand how we can work, both individually and collectively, to “repair the breach”; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Episcopal Church support the passage of legislation to establish a commission to study reparations proposals as affirmation of our commitments to become a transformed, anti-racist church and to work toward healing, reconciliation and a restoration of wholeness to the family of God; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of Convention is instructed to forward, in a timely manner, this resolution to the Secretary of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church.