Titled the Nashville Statement, the document was put together by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW). It came out of a meeting at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s annual conference in the titular city held this past weekend.
The manifesto contains a preamble and 14 articles about human sexuality.
The first article, for example, reads: ‘We affirm that God has designed marriage to be a covenantal, sexual, procreative, lifelong union of one man and one woman, as husband and wife, and is meant to signify the covenant love between Christ and his bride the church.’
Further statements in the document present the idea of only two genders and heterosexuality.
Article 10 states: ‘We affirm that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality and transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.’
Over 150 leaders signed the document. CBMW president Denny Burk claimed the document aims to clear up Christians’ confusion about sexuality.
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