Southern Baptists vote overwhelmingly to defend marriage, authentic sexuality
Southern Baptists voted to officially defend marriage, religious freedom and natural gender at their annual meeting this week, making strong statements against controversial measures over the last year that pose a threat to each. In addition to laying out the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) passed a resolution specifically rejecting last year’s Supreme Court Obergefell decision redefining marriage, along with Barack Obama’s “ guidance ” requiring public schools to provide transgender bathroom access, handed down last month. “The Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision in 2015 purporting to redefine marriage does violence to the Constitution and is contrary to the Bible and natural order,” the resolution states . “The Obama Administration’s recent ‘guidance’ requiring transgender access in public school bathrooms and locker rooms based on its unauthorized redefinition of ‘sex’ in federal law rej