CLEVELAND — The Republican Platform Committee finished drafting a platform Tuesday that claims to propose ways to return decision making to the people, protect constitutional rights, and provide a manual for economic growth, but which does not include reference to LGBT rights.

The complete text of the platform — an update of the party’s 2012 platform — will remain officially under wraps until it is presented to the full convention Monday, the first day of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena.

Some details were glimpsed during the platform committee’s two days of open meetings in which amendments were discussed, even though the bulk of the text was kept secret.

The Platform Committee is one of four committees of the Republican National Committee meeting this week in the Huntington Convention Center, also in Cleveland. The Rules Committee that meets Thursday and Friday is eagerly awaited because it is expected to feature last-ditch attempts by opponents of Donald Trump to prevent the New York real-estate developer from becoming the Republican nominee, even though he has won a majority of the delegates in the primaries and caucuses earlier this year.

The 112-person panel defeated a proposed sentence in a paragraph deploring Islamic radicalism that said, “LGBT individuals in particular have been a target of violence and oppression.” The amendment was adopted only after the LGBT references were replaced with the words “all humans.”

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It was one of about a half-dozen attempts to get amendments to the platform expressly mentioning lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

Rachel Hoff, a delegate from the District of Columbia, said her quest to get some reference to LGBT was becoming “a test of how far this committee is willing to go to avoid a single position referencing the LGBT community.” The committee rebuffed all those efforts.

Ms. Hoff, who said she is the first openly gay member of the Republican platform committee, was joined in her effort by several other members, but they proved to be a minority on the committee.

“This is about standing up for basic human rights of gays and lesbians in this country and around the world,” Ms. Hoff said.

Delegates opposed to the amendment said Christians, women, and Jews were also the targets of radical Islam.

“I’m bothered by the words ‘in particular,’ if you look at the violence perpetrated on Christians,” said Meshawn Maddocks of Michigan.

Other Republican delegates claimed that singling out special-interest groups is a ploy used by the Democratic Party to generate votes but is not a practice of the GOP.

Also introduced and voted down was an endorsement of women serving in combat.

The committee’s mark-up sessions lasted until 8 p.m. Monday and 6 p.m. Tuesday and were open to the news media. During those sessions, the proposed amendments were displayed on television screens, and they were discussed by delegates who had the benefit of knowing their context in platform language.

A group announced plans to offer a “minority report” at the start of the Monday convention. The group needs at least 28 members to gain the floor for debate at the full convention next week.

The proposal is to replace the lengthy, and in the view of some delegates, excessively detailed document with a 1,200-word statement of 17 core principles of the Republican party.

Among other provisions, the committee voted down an amendment to give the residents of U.S. territories — such as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico — the right to vote for president.

The committee adopted planks to exempt defense from spending caps imposed by the 2011 budget sequestration and to support a proposal to give Poland visa waiver privileges.

“It’s a major irritant in Polish-American relations,” said delegate Victor Ashe of Knoxville, Tenn., who was the ambassador to Poland from 2004 to 2009. “Poland is not in the visa waiver program, whereas other countries that are less friendly to us are.”

The visa waiver program allows eligible foreigners to visit the United States for up to 90 days without visas. Opponents say Poland has a high rate of people traveling to the United States and then illegally overstaying their visas.

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First Published July 13, 2016, 4:00 a.m.