Southern Baptists held their annual national conference in Dallas earlier this month, passing resolutions thoroughly in keeping with the denomination’s commitment to being in the forefront of the retreat from charity and good will.
Authoritarian Republicans have been working hard to demonize transgender persons in popular discourse, but marriage equality is a settled issue for most Americans. That didn't deter the Southern Baptists from passing a four-page resolution "call[ing] for the overturning of laws and court rulings, including Obergefell v. Hodges, that defy God’s design for marriage and family."
Further provisions in the resolution deny the existence of transgender persons, demand "complete and permanent" defunding of Planned Parenthood, and decry what its authors call "willful childlessness."
Southern Baptists, the largest protestant sect in the U.S., have a history of opposition to racial and gender equality, workers' collective rights, welfare, and science, while mounting biblical advocacy of segregation and slavery.
About the only social reform movement that they have supported was Prohibition. The record is clear on how that worked out.
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