Messengers to the 2008 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting approved resolutions Wednesday supporting the California marriage amendment and urging government defunding of Planned Parenthood, the Baptist Press reported.
The marriage resolution urged Christians to work and vote for the amendment and to pray for its passage. It encouraged California pastors to "speak strongly, prophetically and redemptively" about homosexuality and the protection of biblical marriage. It also repeated calls for adoption of a federal constitutional amendment to define marriage as only the union of a man and a woman.
The resolution on Planned Parenthood called for Congress to eliminate funding for the nation's largest abortion provider, which received $335 million in government grants and contracts last year.
Other approved resolutions:
- Called for Christians to participate in the political and public policy process.
- Urged Christians to "resist the march of secularism" and seek to influence businesses and other institutions to return Christmas to "its proper place in the culture."
