When the Idaho Republican Party holds its state central committee winter meeting this Friday and Saturday, 13 proposed resolutions will be considered by the resolutions committee on Friday, though only those approved there would proceed to a full central committee vote on Saturday; typically only a small number of those proposed are adopted. The party’s rules committee also will consider proposed changes, at the meeting that starts late Friday afternoon at the Riverside Hotel in Boise. The full agenda is online here; the two-day meeting wraps up with a “GOP Governors Ball” fundraiser at the Knitting Factory.

Among the 13 resolutions being proposed by committee members from various parts of the state: One, proposed by three members including Kootenai County state committeeman Toby Schindelbeck, calls for halting all refugee resettlement until security and economic issues are examined; another, proposed by Chuck Reitz of Shoshone County, opposes the recent Paris climate change agreement and declares global warming a “sham.”

Another resolution backs transfer of public lands to states; one calls for defunding Planned Parenthood; and another declares, “Islam, as a complete social, economic, legal, political, and military entity with a religious component, is not a religious denomination under the generally accepted sense of the term and does not merit First Amendment protections under the U.S. Constitution.” That resolution, proposed by Camas County Chair Lee Barron, calls for expanding a 1954 federal anti-Communist law. You can see all the proposed resolutions online here.

Proposed rule changes also will be considered during the winter meeting, and “Hall of Fame Awards” will be bestowed. There are no platform discussions at this meeting; that occurs during the summer party convention. The current party platform was adopted in June of 2012.