Southern Baptists at their annual meeting in Dallas overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for the reversal of the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
The resolution also urges lawmakers to support policies aligned with biblical teachings on family, gender and fertility.
More than 10,000 representatives from churches nationwide gathered for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., according to WFAA.
Delegates voted without debate to adopt the measure, which explicitly supports overturning Obergefell v. Hodges and any laws or rulings that provide legal recognition of same-sex marriage.
While the resolution does not include the word “ban,” it leaves no room for legal same-sex marriage, calling instead for “the overturning of laws and court rulings, including Obergefell v. Hodges, that defy God’s design for marriage and family.”
It further urges lawmakers to enact legislation affirming marriage as “between one man and one woman.”
A reversal of Obergefell would not automatically impose a nationwide ban on same-sex marriage. Prior to the 2015 ruling, 36 states had already legalized it.
Nonetheless, the resolution’s language calls for the removal of all legal and judicial support for same-sex unions.
The Washington Examiner reported that Andrew Walker, a Southern Baptist seminary ethicist in Kentucky and author of the resolution, said, “What we’re trying to do is keep the conversation alive.”
He emphasized long-term legal strategies to challenge Obergefell, drawing lessons from the decades-long effort to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Christians are called to play the long game,” Walker told The New York Times. “There are burgeoning embryonic efforts being discussed at the legal-strategy level on how to begin to challenge Obergefell.”
Justice Clarence Thomas has previously signaled support for reexamining Obergefell in a concurring opinion to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
This opinion has been cited by Christian conservatives as a roadmap for reversing other major legal precedents.
According to WFAA, the resolution was part of a broader statement addressing marriage, gender and public policy.
It affirms “the biological reality of male and female” and opposes any law or policy that “compels people to speak falsehoods about sex and gender.”
The resolution also encourages Christians to “embrace marriage and childbearing” and calls for a cultural shift away from what it describes as “willful childlessness,” citing concerns over declining fertility rates.
“Children are blessings rather than burdens,” the resolution states, advocating for public policies that support raising children within “intact, married families.”
Framing these cultural and legal issues within a biblical worldview, the resolution calls on lawmakers to “pass laws that reflect the truth of creation and natural law” and to oppose legislation contradicting biblical teaching.
Last year, the SBC passed a resolution opposing in vitro fertilization, as noted by the Washington Examiner.
This year’s marriage resolution is viewed as a more assertive declaration of the denomination’s vision for aligning U.S. law with Christian values.
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