In Depth:  Adrian Warnock blog / Baptist Union of Great Britain

The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) recently issued a statement, in response to the changes in marriage law, which allows for a minister and his congregation to divert from the biblical view on same-sex relationships.

Although affirming ‘the traditionally accepted biblical understanding of Christian marriage, as a union between a man and a woman, as the continuing foundation of belief in our Baptist Churches’, the statement contains the following: ‘We also recognise the freedom of a minister to respond to the wishes of their church, where their conscience permits, without breach of disciplinary guidelines’.