(RNS) — Southern Baptists called for the overturning of the Supreme Court decision that ruled same-sex marriage constitutional, and also declared their support of laws that “recognize the biological reality of male and female.”
Meeting in Dallas on the first day of their Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting Tuesday (June 10), they adopted a resolution titled “On Restoring Moral Clarity through God’s Design for Gender, Marriage, and the Family.” It states “we call for the overturning of laws and court rulings, including Obergefell v. Hodges, that defy God’s design for marriage and family.”
More than 10,000 messengers, or local church delegates, attended the gathering at Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
The resolution reflects a growing interest among conservative Christians in overturning the 2015 Obergefell decision, modeling their effort on the fall of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, in the court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.
The statement also urged the “complete and permanent defunding of Planned Parenthood” and declared that the “normalization of transgender ideology — especially the participation of biological males and females in opposite gender sports and the medical transition of minors — represents a rebellion against God’s design for male and female, inflicts unjust harm on children, men, and wome …