This Congress supports in principle the resolution of CAHS on civil celebrancy.

This Congress recognises the essential place of Rites of Passage in the lives of secular people; supports those civil celebrants who are working towards effective and satisfying rites and ceremonies for non church people;

calls on the federal government to support celebrancy as of value in its own right, as strengthening relationships, bonding families and communities and expressing and reinforcing the best of human values; calls on the federal government to support civil celebrancy as a means of expressing and encouraging the visual and performing arts and by this means bringing joy to human life.

IHEU Regional Congress, Australia, November 2000