Social Issues

These are statements the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference has adopted in the last 10 years.

Conference 2001

“We affirm that life begins at conception.  Therefore, we are morally opposed to human embryonic stem cell research.  We urge governments not to provide funding for human embryonic stem cell research.”

Conference 2003

“Seventh Day Baptists strongly affirm that the Divinely instituted union of marriage is solely between a man and a woman.”

Conference 2004

“In light of the ongoing issues of marriage still going on throughout the United States, we reaffirm the statement:  ‘Seventh Day Baptists strongly affirm that the Divinely instituted union of marriage is solely between a man and a woman.'”