Calendar Item Text: 807-71

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The Committee recommends concurrence as amended as follows:

(Additions by the Legislative Committee are underlined)

Add a new sub-paragraph to ¶71 and be renumbered 71, H and that all appropriate paragraphs be appropriately relettered:

Sexual harassment.--We believe human sexuality is God's good gift. One abuse of the good gift is sexual harassment. We define S sexual harassment is as any unwanted sexual advance or demand, either verbal or physical, which is reasonably perceived by the recipient as demeaning, intimidating or coercive. Sexual harassment must be understood as an exploitation of a power relationship rather than as an exclusively sexual issue. Sexual harassment also includes, but is not limited to, the creation of a hostile or abusive working environment resulting from discrimination on the basis of gender.

Contrary to the nurturing community, Ssexual harassment creates improper, coercive, and abusive conditions wherever it occurs in society. Sexual harassment undermines the social goal of equal opportunity and the climate of mutual respect between men and women. Unwanted sexual attention is wrong and discriminatory. Sexual harassment interferes with the moral mission of the church.

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Calendar Item Text: 807-711996 United Methodist General Conference