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A worship session at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 10, 2025, in Dallas. AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez

Southern Baptists’ call for the US Supreme Court to overturn its same‑sex marriage decision is part of a long history of opposing women’s and LGBTQ+ people’s rights

Over the years, the Southern Baptist Convention has spoken out against many efforts to advance LGBTQ rights, writes a scholar who studies Southern Baptists.
Jeff Sralla, left, and his partner of 28 years, Gerald Gafford, wed in 2015 in Texas. AP Photo/Eric Gay

Same‑sex marriage is under attack by state lawmakers, emboldened by Trump’s anti‑LGBTQ+ measures and the Supreme Court’s willingness to overturn precedent

President Donald Trump’s second term and the Supreme Court’s conservative activism have lit a fire in Republicans, who are targeting same-sex marriage as part of a broader attack on LGBTQ+ rights.
Russian President Vladimir Putin at a polling station to cast his ballot in a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms in Moscow on July 1, 2020. Alexey Druzhinin/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

With prizes, food, housing and cash, Putin rigged Russia’s most recent vote

The recent vote in Russia supporting Vladimir Putin’s constitutional reforms was pure theater and obscures growing friction between state and society.

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