Resolution Number: 1988-A085
Title: Decry Violence Against Homosexuals and Urge Law Enforcement
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That this 69th General Convention decries the increase of violence against homosexual persons and calls upon law enforcement officials across the land to be sensitive to this peril and to prosecute guilty persons to the fullest extent of the law.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Detroit, 1988 (New York: General Convention, 1989), p. 483.

Legislative History

Author: The Standing Commission on Human Affairs and Health
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on Social and Urban Affairs

House of Bishops

Original text of Resolution:

(A085)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That this 69th General Convention decries the increase of violence against homosexual persons and calls upon law enforcement officials across the land to be sensitive to this peril and to prosecute guilty persons to the fullest extent of the law.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #5)

House of Deputies

The Committee on Social and Urban Affairs presented its Report #26 on House of Bishops Message #5 relating to Resolution A085 (Violence Against Homosexual Persons) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #30)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 3.

Report Reference:   Standing Commission on Human Affairs and Health, Reports to the 69th General Convention, 1988, pp. 137-170.
Abstract:   The 69th General Convention condemns violence against homosexual persons and calls upon law enforcement officials to prosecute guilty persons to the fullest extent of the law.