This position has never been changed, and it has been reaffirmed in various statements and actions across the years.
Homosexual practice is therefore in conflict with the Bible.
The board also asked the church to remove the convention s name from its web site and other materials. The biblical basis for Texas Baptists opposition to the sin of homosexuality is found throughout both the Old and New Testaments. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. The first two chapters of Genesis talk about the concept of marriage as a covenant relation between male and female.