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Article: SBC approves family statement. (Southern Baptist Convention's adoption of statement supporting heterosexual marriage and submissive role of wives)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- June 17, 1998
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At the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Salt Lake City, 8,200 messengers (delegates) on June 9 overwhelmingly approved adoption of a statement on the family that affirmed their support for heterosexual marriage and their belief that the Bible says wives should "submit ... graciously" to their husbands. Also on June 9 messengers elected Paige Patterson, one of the chief engineers of the conservative takeover of the SBC, as president of the 15.9-million-member denomination.
The four paragraphs on the family approved at the SBC's annual meeting are now officially the 18th article in the "Baptist Faith and Message," a pivotal theological text ...