Southern Baptists are officially taking a stand against LGBTQ rights, sending a concerning signal about where the country could be headed.

On June 10, thousands of pastors and members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination voted on a resolution to support efforts to overturn same-sex marriage. Along with opposing gay marriage, the resolution calls for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, rails against “transgender ideology” and opposes commercial surrogacy.

That’s a lot of animosity packed into one declaration. But it's one that Republicans seem increasingly interested in supporting.

What’s scary is that there are........

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