Two more denominations have made official statements about their opposition to same-sex “marriage.”
The General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, which recently met in St. Charles, III., for its annual conference, passed a resolution on the subject.
Delegates, or messengers, to the meeting stated that they “affirm that legal and biblical marriage can take place only between one man and one woman.”
They also urged their pastors and clergy to consider “the necessity of protecting and exercising our biblical duty and religious liberty in solemnizing only those marriages permitted by Scripture.”
The resolution was passed during the June 28-July 2 meeting.
The Church of the Nazarene released a statement to its U.S. church leaders prior to July Senate vote on a constitutional amendment that would have banned gay “marriage.”
Nazarene district superintendents were encouraged to have their pastors urge congregations to call members of Congress to express their support for the amendment.
(RNS)
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