Southern Baptists Get Sports Betting Wrong
At the recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in Dallas, the attendees failed to pass a motion to prohibit member churches from having women pastors. The motion, which needed a two-thirds majority to pass, received 3,421 votes in favor and 2,191 votes against. However, other resolutions did pass that go beyond an intra-denominational issue.
A collective resolution passed that urged Christians to “celebrate and embrace marriage and childbearing”; called for the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country; and called for “the complete and permanent defunding of Planned Parenthood,” a leading provider of abortion.
Other resolutions passed that called on the United States Congress and state legislatures to “pass laws banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution of chemical abortion drugs, to enforce the Comstock Act prohibiting the mailing of abortion pills, and to hold accountable pharmaceutical companies and medical providers complicit in these harms” and to “enact comprehensive laws that ban the creation, publication, hosting, and distribution of pornographic content in all media and to provide rigorous enforcement mechanisms—including age-verification and civil liability—in the ultimate effort to eradicate pornography nationwide.”
Still another resolution passed “On the Harmful and Predatory
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