Committee votes to prohibit demonstrations during sessions The Layman Online Tuesday, June 27, 2000 LONG BEACH, Calif. - The Committee on General Assembly Procedures has voted 28-10 to ask the full General Assembly to prohibit demonstrations within the meeting room while the commissioners are in session. The motion said, "Peaceful demonstrations shall be allowed twenty-five or more feet outside of the entrances to the building in which General Assembly meets. Spontaneous or planned demonstrations by individuals or groups are prohibited inside the building where General Assembly meets. The moderator of the General Assembly shall declare all demonstrations that occur in plenary session out of order and, if demonstrators fail to immediately disband and desist, shall recess the General Assembly to a fixed time and place. This rule does not prohibit the spontaneous or planned celebration of an action of the General Assembly or of an event in the life of the Church." The motion will be considered by the full General Assembly later this week.

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