At this week’s big Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas the massive church association’s leadership committee will ask voting congregants to sign off on a platform calling for a national ban on pornography and for the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 2015 Obergefell v Hodges decision which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the Associated Press reports.
It’s not clear if the conservative denomination’s main resolution will also affirm support for Republican President Donald Trump, who last year was convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud related to his failed cover-up of a sexual encounter with a pornographic actress while married to his still-current wife, who also modeled for pornographic photoshoots for extra cash while overstaying a work visa. Or whether if the resolution will honor the memory of former SBC Vice President Paul Pressler, a profligate pederast who died at the age of 94 in early June 2024, several months after the convention settled a lawsuit from a man who said he was sexually abused for years by Pressler.
The convention’s leadership will however reintroduce a resolution to ban congregations led by women pastors after it narrowly failed to reach the two-thirds threshold at the 2024 annual meeting.