The Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for a ban on same-sex marriage, pornography and abortion pills.
On Tuesday, thousands of messengers approved three resolutions on social issues relating to sexual ethics and abortion at the SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas.
One resolution entitled “On restoring moral clarity through divine designs for gender, marriage and family” was a 2015 US Supreme Court decision Obergefellv, which awarded state restrictions on unconstitutionality in same-sex marriage. He called for the Hodges to be overturned.
The resolution supports “laws that affirm marriage between one man and one woman, recognise the biological reality of men and women, protect children’s innocence against sexual predation, affirm and strengthen parental rights in education and healthcare, encourage family formation in life-affirming ways, and ensure the safety and fairness of athletic competition.”
The resolution entitled “Prohibition of Porn” was called “to enact a comprehensive law that prohibits the creation, publication, hosting and distribution of pornographic content in all media, and provides a final effort to provide strict enforcement mechanisms, including age verification and civil liability.”
The resolution praised the US Congress and President Donald Trump for passing the Take It Down Act, which enacted harsher punishments for those who create or share unconsensual pornographic images online, including deepfakes generated by AI.
The third resolution, entitled “To confront the medical dangers of moral evil and the chemical abortion drugs,” called the SBC to “sadly grieves the continued destruction of preschool life through the abortion of chemicals and condemns increasingly reliant on dangerous drug and deceptive habits for the exploitation of women by the abortion industry.”
“(w) we are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to immediately revoke Mifepristone’s approval, restoring all previously removed safety protocols and reevaluating chemical abortion drugs using actual data,” the resolution states, referring to the first drug in a chemical abortion regimen.
“(w) urges the US Congress and state legislatures to pass laws prohibiting the manufacture, sale, distribution and mailing of chemical abortion drugs, and to have drug companies and healthcare providers who are complex and accountable for these harms.”
Before the 2015 Supreme Court decision, most states held a referendum to approve the addition of their respective constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. Some states have moved to legalize same-sex marriages or have since removed amendments from their constitution, while others still have such bans in the book.
In recent months, efforts have been increasing for some Republican lawmakers who overturned Obersifel’s decision and therefore allowed the state to ban same-sex marriage.
In January, for example, Idaho lawmakers passed a resolution asking the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision while similar proposals have gained traction in several other states, including Michigan, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. The country’s high courts cannot reconsider same-sex marriage decisions unless another legal issue on the matter is brought to the court.
Originally published by The Christian Post
