Along with endorsing other long-standing conservative hot themes, the Southern Baptists Convention passed a resolution calling for the reversal of same-sex marriage in the United States with ease.
The SBC doubled down on gender issues Tuesday at its annual convention in Dallas, Texas, where delegates from America’s largest Protestant denomination approved a broad resolution calling for the “overturning of laws and court rulings, including Obergefell v Hodges, that defy God’s design for marriage and family.”
It came as the tenth anniversary of the historic 2015 Obergefell decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which formally legalised gay marriage.
Among other things, the SBC resolution upheld the organization’s view that there are only two genders and that marriage is an act performed between a man and a woman.
In addition, supporters of SBC spoke out against commercial parental surrogacy and the alleged normalisation of “transgender ideology.”
“Our culture is increasingly rejecting and distorting these truths by redefining marriage, pursuing willful childlessness which contributes to a declining fertility rate, ignoring and suppressing the biological differences between male and female, encouraging gender confusion, undermining parental rights and denying the value and dignity of children,” according to the SBC resolution.
There are a number of independent polls that demonstrate that gay marriage has had a broad and ever-growing support among the majority of residents in the United States, despite the fact that the denomination has views that are quite conservative.
According to Andrew Walker, an ethicist at a Southern Baptist seminary in Kentucky who draughted the resolution, “What we’re trying to do is keep the conversation alive,” Walker said.
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During a crackdown that took place on the same day that delegates chose a new SBC president, the convention held in Indianapolis in the previous year voted to reject a proposal that would restrict the work that women may conduct in pastoral capacities.
On the other hand, the resolution proposed by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2025 was similarly condemned on Wednesday by a large number of human rights activists and organisations.
“Marriage equality is settled law,” Laurel Powell, communications director of Human Rights Campaign, stated in a statement.
Powell continued by saying, “Love is love, and the right for LGBTQ+ couples to marry is supported by an overwhelming majority of the American public,” which was included in the statement released by the Human Rights Campaign.
