Southern Baptists are officially taking a stand against LGBTQ+ rights, sending a concerning signal about where the country could be headed.
On June 10, thousands of pastors and members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination voted on a resolution to support efforts to overturn same-sex marriage. Along with opposing gay marriage, the resolution calls for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, rails against “transgender ideology” and opposes commercial surrogacy.
That’s a lot of animosity packed into one declaration. But it's one that Republicans seem increasingly interested in supporting.
What’s scary is that there are now efforts to bring same-sex marriage back to the Supreme Court with the intention of overturning Obergefell v. Hodges. Republicans in the Idaho House of Representatives has passed a resolution to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the decade-old ruling.
Eight other state legislatures introduced similar measures affecting the legality of same-sex marriage.
