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