Southern Baptist Treaty of 2025: Important Issues
The Southern Baptist Treaty is the largest Protestant sect in the country. Headquartered in Nashville.
- The resolution is an historic US Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage, Obergefellv. It is approved to try and reverse Hodges.
- The June 10th vote by the nation’s largest Protestant denomination represents double the issue of gender and sexuality.
Dallas – The Southern Baptist Treaty marks the 10th anniversary of the historic US Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage. It passed a resolution in favour of a coordinated effort to reverse Hodges.
The June 10 vote by the nation’s largest Protestant denomination continued to move sharply to the right as the main group of evangelical Christians continued to move sharply to the right, with SBC’s successful campaign being Roev. It represents double the issues of gender and sexuality to show that they want to overturn Wade.
It is yet to be seen that the latest votes will move the needle on gay marriages by the majority of Americans. Last year, the SBC passed a resolution condemning the use of Vitro fertilization, but only to see President Donald Trump sign an executive order earlier this year to protect IVF access and reduce out-of-pocket and health planning costs.
Reversing Obergefell’s ruling is one of many issues related to gender, gender and marriage included in the resolution. Above all, the resolution confirms that there are only two genders, marriage is defined between men and women, families are designed for childbirth, and human life is sacred “from conception to natural death.”
The measures describe these declarations not only as Christian beliefs, but as “universal truths” and “essential to a healthy, just and free society.”
“Our culture is increasingly rejecting and distorting these truths by redefine marriage, pursuing intentional childlessness that contributes to reduced fertility, ignoring and restraining biological differences between men and women, promoting gender confusion, and denialing the value and dignity of children, which undermine parental rights.”
The resolution also opposes the commercial surrogacy and normalization of “transgender ideology,” which states that policies that denies “the biological reality of men and women” are legal fiction. It opposes laws and policies that force people to “speak falsely about sex and gender,” and calls for permanent refunds for planned parents.
Last year, the treaty narrowly rejected a constitutional ban on female pastors. The SBC excluded seven churches in order to accept egalitarian views on women in ministry, including the Megachurch Saddleback Church in Southern California, in order to embrace the egalitarian views of women, as opposed to the complementary position supported by treaties that consider men and women to have different roles.
The swing to the right of the Supreme Court and the election of President Donald Trump have encouraged more conservative factions and Christian political activists in the treaty, seeing a ripe moment of change in American jurisprudence.
“It’s time to reclaim our country,” said Chad Connelly of Faith’s Victory, an organization focused on Christian votes. “I think we’ve given the opportunity, but now we have time.”
The resolution is a non-binding statement representing the views of the Convention on Social and Cultural Issues. Other resolutions at the previous SBC Annual Meeting reaffirmed Southern Baptists’ opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, but this year’s resolution was the most powerful clarification of the Supreme Court’s precedent responsibilities to protect same-sex marriage.
A representative called the Messenger overwhelmingly approved the resolution after most discussion about the language.
Denny Burke, the strong traditionalist voice of SBC, proposed the language of the resolution that the Messenger finally approved. Burke is the Louisville-based Biblical Masculinity and Women’s President, the advocacy group behind two famous and evangelical statements opposed to LGBTQ+ rights. The first was the Danvers’s statement in 1987, and the second was the Nashville statement in 2017.
“It is sinful to recognize gay immorality or transgenderism, and such recognition constitutes Christian faithfulness and essential deviations from witnesses,” the Nashville statement said. “The recognition of gay immoral or transgenderism is a matter of moral indifference that otherwise loyal Christians should agree to oppose it.”
The new resolution, approved by the SBC, is another repetition of the Nashville statement, but it more forcefully attacks US jurisprudence protecting LGBTQ+ rights that evangelicals oppose.