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More than 150 Evangelical Religious Leaders Sign “Christian Manifesto” on Human Sexuality
posted on August 30, 2017The Tennessean‘s Holly Meyer reports, “A nationwide coalition of more than 150 conservative Christian leaders signed a statement, released Tuesday, affirming their beliefs on human sexuality, including that marriage is between one man and one woman and approval of ‘homosexual immorality’ is sinful.” The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood released the so-called “Nashville Statement,” named for the city where leaders convened last week for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s annual conference. The news prompted Nashville’s mayor to distance the city from the manifesto, calling it “poorly named.”