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Violence Against Women

Human Trafficking (CCAR)

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Date: Tue, 06/01/2004 Status: Approved View Statement Online
Adopted by the 115th Annual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Toronto, Canada
June, 2004

Background

Resolution on Sexual Harassment Adopted by the 1989 ELCA Churchwide Assembly

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Date: Sun, 01/01/1989 Status: Approved View Statement Online

WHEREAS, all persons were created by God in the divine image, and human sexuality is a
gracious gift of God;

WHEREAS, our baptism into the family of God calls us to stand firmly and pastorally against
all forms of abuse and to respect and empower our brothers and sisters in Christ;

WHEREAS, sexual violence of many kinds is widespread in our society (including sexual
harassment on the job, rape and sexual assault, incest, and child sexual abuse), and experts
estimate that two-fifths of working women experience sexual harassment, two-fifths of all

Calling on the Christian Church to Join the Decade to Overcome Violence

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Date: Tue, 07/17/2001 Resolution Number: 0118 View Statement Online

No. 0118

(Emergency Sense-of-the-Assembly)

CALLING ON THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) TO JOIN THE DECADE TO OVERCOME VIOLENCE

Human Sexuality and Sexual Behavior A Social Statement of the American Lutheran Church, a predecessor church body of the ELCA (1980): Ministering as a Church

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Date: Wed, 10/01/1980 View Statement Online

1. Caring
1.1. The church's first concern is for people. The body of Christ is a caring community. It cares that each person be in right relationship with God, with neighbor, with nature, with social systems, and with self. It is a caring shared among all the members. It is a mark of Christian love and discipleship. It reaches out to those most in need—the widowed and the orphaned, the weak and the lowly, the despised and the rejected, the hurting and the confused, the lonely and the solitary.

Human Sexuality and Sexual Behavior A Social Statement of the American Lutheran Church, a predecessor church body of the ELCA (1980): Defiling God's Gift

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Date: Wed, 10/01/1980 View Statement Online

1. Human beings are capable not only of good but also of evil uses of their sexuality. People are ready to exploit this fact to their own power or profit. Major industries are built up around satisfying "the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life" (1 John 2:16).

2. Among forms of exploitive sexual behavior against which Christians should be ready to work are those which:

(a) exploit children and youth, men and women, as in pornography and prostitution;

(b) take advantage of persons who are ill, helpless, dependent, handicapped, or of little power;

1999 Statement

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Date: Fri, 01/01/1999 View Statement Online

1999 Statement – PC(USA), p. 591

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