As en went to press, evangelicals and other conservatives had won an important vote in the Norwegian Baptist Union.
131 of the 179 votes cast supported a submission made by the board saying that the annual meeting emphasises ‘the lifelong marriage between one man and one woman’ as the biblical form of cohabitation. This confirms a statement made by the annual meeting in the year 2000 saying that living together in same-sex relationships is not compatible with holding leadership positions in The Baptist Union churches.
The connservative network Veien Videre (The Road Ahead) had previously threatened to leave the union because a church in Bærum in 2018 elected a lesbian woman in a same-sex marriage as a member of the local church council.
