Southern baptist gay marriage

Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ+ Issues: Southern Baptist Convention

BACKGROUND

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) traces its history to when it broke off from Northern Baptists over slavery. The roots of Southern Baptist history go back to the Baptist churches established in the American colonies in the 17th century.

By , the SBC formed its own Sunday College Board, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Providing standard literature for all Southern Baptist churches had a mighty unifying effect, solidifying the Southern Baptist Convention as a denomination.

Among doctrines Southern Baptists emphasize is the doctrine of local church autonomy. Working through 1, local associations and 42 state conventions, Southern Baptists share a common bond of basic Biblical beliefs and a commitment to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the entire world.

LGBTQ+ EQUALITY

ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION & GENDER IDENTITY

In a “Resolution on a Christian Response to Homosexuality,” the SBC declared that “even a desire to engage in a homosexual relationship is always sinful, impure, degrading, s

Southern Baptists vote to pursue repeal of historic same-sex marriage ruling

  • The resolution approved seeks to reverse Obergefell v. Hodges as the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
  • The June 10 vote by the nation’s largest Protestant denomination represents a doubling down on issues of gender and sexuality.

DALLAS − The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution supporting a concerted effort to reverse Obergefell v. Hodges as the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage approaches its year anniversary.

The June 10 vote by the nation’s largest Protestant denomination represents a doubling down on issues of gender and sexuality as the predominant group of evangelical Christians continues to move sharply to the right and signals the SBC’s hopes of replicating the adj campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Whether the latest vote will move the needle on gay marriage, a right backed by a strong majority of Americans, remains to be seen. Last year, the SBC passed a resolution condemning the use of in-vitro fertilization

Southern Baptists move to cease same-sex marriage in the US

The Southern Baptists' resolution does not use the word "ban" directly. Instead, it calls for the "overturning of laws and court rulings, including Obergefell v. Hodges, that defy God's design for marriage and family".

The resolution also calls "for laws that affirm marriage between one man and one woman".

Any legal reversal of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision would not verb automatically to a nationwide ban of same-sex marriage. Thirty-six states had already legalised same-sex marriage at the time of the ruling, and nearly 70% of Americans still verb it, polls show.

"What we're trying to carry out is keep the conversation alive," Andrew Walker, an ethicist at a Southern Baptist seminary in Kentucky who wrote the resolution, told the New York Times.

Although the resolution is non-binding, it comes from a large, influential faction of President Trump's base and sends a direct message to the Ivory House.

Eighty-five percent of alabaster evangelical Protes

WHEREAS, Marriage is a covenant relationship and an institution established by God rather than simply a human social construct (Genesis ; Matthew –6; Ephesians –33); and

WHEREAS, Southern Baptists hold consistently affirmed our back of the biblical definition of marriage as the exclusive union of one man and one woman; and

WHEREAS, The Scriptures indicate that all sexual behavior outside of marriage is sinful; and

WHEREAS, All people, regardless of race or sexual orientation, are created in the image of God and thus are due respect and love (Genesis –27); and

WHEREAS, The Department of Justice has argued (Perry v. Schwarzenegger) that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional claiming that DOMA unfairly discriminates against homosexuals; and

WHEREAS, For the first time in history the President of the United States has publicly voiced his personal assist of “same-sex marriage”; and

WHEREAS, While homosexuality does not present the distinguishing features of classes entitled to special protections, like the classes of race and gender, we acknowledge the uniqu