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General Conference 2000 - May 2 - 12

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30605-GJ-268-D Observe "Organ and Tissue Donor Sunday" on the second Sunday in November.
30893-GJ-268-D Observe an annual Alcohol and Drug Awareness Sunday
31772-HE-NonDis-O$ Offer full-tuition to 200 seminarians as a pilot program
31276-DI-272.3-D Offer opportunties to improve skills
30767-HE-403-D Offices of bishop & district superintendent
31873-GJ-702.1-D Official UMC agencies must faithfully represent the UM doctrinal statement & Articles of Religion
30937-CO-509.3-D Officials of UMC shall not speak publicly for the church in ways that are inconsistent w/Soc.Prin.
30682-FA-NonDis-O Omit fourth verse of "Praise to The Lord, The Almighty" in next printing of UM Hymnal
30684-FA-NonDis-O Omit stanza 3 words and replace with the original words in next printing of UM hymnal
30242-CC-548-D On becoming an affiliated autonomous Methodist or United church
30530-CS-NonDis-O On human cloning
31957-CS-NonDis-O One step toward a dioxin-free future
31742-CO-NonDis-O Only active pastors may vote
30474-HE-427-D Open meetings, Council of Bishops
30475-CO-604.13-D Open meetings, annual conferences
31533-HE-633.1-D Open nominations for personnel agencies to the floor
30232-CO-602.1-D Open the voting on delegates to Gen'l,jurisd'l or central conf. to all clergy
31660-FO-65-D Oppose abortion funding except in life-threatening situations
30270-FO-65.J-D Oppose abortion in continuity with moral law of OT & churches provide pregnancy care ministries
30173-CS-NonDis-O Oppose abuse of animals & support laws & practices that teach awareness of all God's creation
31082-FO-NonDis-O Oppose any changes that would grant approval of partial-birth abortion
31676-FO-68-D Oppose capital punishment and urge its elimination
30003-FO-66.M-D Oppose cloning of humans
31745-FO-NonDis-O Oppose discrimination
30216-GM-NonDis-O Oppose economic sanctions against Iraq
31644-FO-65.L-D Oppose euthanasia
30525-CS-R648-U Oppose food and medicine blockades or embargoes
31643-FO-65.K-D Oppose laws alowing adoptions by same sex partners
30194-FO-68.F-D Oppose life imprisonment w/o parole, death penalty as these deny God's redemptive power
30124-CS-R1-U Oppose privatization of Social Security
30114-FO-NonDis-O Opposition to dilation and extraction aka partial birth abortion
30519-CS-R525-U Opposition to the deportation of Salvadoran refugees from the US
31910-HE-358.3-D Option of appeal to Jurisdictional Appellate Committee shall be given to clergy member charged
30187-HE-331.1-D Ordained clergy may perform holy covenants between persons of the same sex
31145-HE-311-D Ordained deacons & assoc. members who choose to follow 1996 BOD shall participate in Elder Order
30912-HE-338-D Ordained deacons or commissioned ministers from another annual conf. may transfer into an A.C.
30748-HE-337.1-D Ordained elders or clergy from other annual conferences and other Methodist denominations
30899-FO-304.1-D Ordinands must accept UMC doctrine as well as discipline
30810-FO-303-D Ordination for the same or equivalent order is not repeatable
30835-GM-R113-U Organ and tissue donation
31130-GJ-907.1-D Organization and membership of the Covenant Council
30471-DI-NonDis-O Organize a study of communion in the UMC
31923-FA-1506.20-D Outdated reference elimination
30600-LC-254.2-D Outreach ministries shall give attention to higher ed and campus ministries
30027-LC-254.2-D Outreach ministries to include earth advocacy

 

 


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