Congressional Voting Representation for the District of Columbia

ELCA Churchwide Assembly Action CA01.07.62

Passed by the 2001 Churchwide Assembly in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Resolved
To affirm the sense of the memorial of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod concerning congressional voting representation for the citizens of the District of Columbia;

To direct the Division for Church in Society, through the Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs, to communicate to the President and the Congress of the United States this church's position that equitable voting representation in Congress be granted to the citizens of the District of Columbia; and

To encourage members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to communicate to the President and the Congress of the United States their concern for full voting rights for the people of the District of Columbia.