Andrew Watts said
> Simply for a bit more info from Assembly (I can't recall whether or not
> you were there). There was actually an amendment proposed to the original
> proposal 54 (84's ancestor) which was suggesting the adding of some words
> which encouraged the church to continue the dialogue. The intent behind
> this amendment was to prevent what occurred after the 2000 Assembly where
> many assumed (though there was no actual minute saying so) that there
> should be a halt to the dialogue for the time being. The proposers of this
> amendment wanted some explicit wording encouraging the continuing of
> dialogue. I don't believe the wording was as strong as you are suggesting
> about a "commitment to keep working on it". This amendment along with
> other such minor amendments to the main proposal were put before the small
> working groups. However the facilitation group indicated that the small
> working groups had only given very patchy support to this amendment and
> most of the others. The only amendment that got through was the addition
> of the words "on some issues" in the bit about being mutually exclusive
> positions so that it read "people of faith have ... on some issues come to
> mutually exclusive positions".
>
> Why this did not get support we obviously do not know. My guess is people
> were scared of anything that might derail the main proposal but that is
> just my opinion and probably only one of many reasons.
[Bev Fabb] The reason this amendment did not get up was due to
opposition from migrant ethnic members who interpreted it to mean that they
would be forced to talk about the issue and it is something that they do not
feel comfortable talking about. I do not believe that there was any
compulsion to talk about it- it was meant to be invitational- allowing
dialogue to happen rather than forcing it. The facilitation group felt that
given the migrant ethnic opposition it was not worth pursuing the amendment,
as they argued that there was nothing to prevent dialogue if we wanted to do
that.
bev
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