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At the church's annual convention, votes will be cast for a number of resolutions confirming the official stance of the Southern Baptists on various issues.

“For Southern Baptists, the waters of sexuality are not muddy,” he said, noting how their 100-year-old Baptist Faith and Message describes marital unions, citing a passage in the New Testament.

The convention has 12.7 million members in the United States. Southern Baptists have long held to a view called complementarianism, which prescribes different roles for men and women.

Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S.

The Southern Baptist Convention gathered for its annual legislative assembly in Dallas on June 10-11, reviewing resolutions about social and cultural issues, like same-sex marriage.