The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) – the largest Protestant denomination in the United States – is convening its annual meeting in Dallas this week and will vote on a series of resolutions addressing contentious moral and social issues. 

Chief among these is a measure urging efforts to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalised same-sex marriage nationwide. While the SBC has long opposed same-sex unions, this marks the first time the denomination is formally calling on representatives of its tens of thousands of member churches to work towards ending legally recognised same-sex marriage.