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''The Nashville Statement''' is an [[evangelical]] [[Christianity|Christian]] [[statement of faith]] relating to [[human sexuality]] and [[gender roles]] authored by the [[Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood]] (CBMW) in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] in 2017.<ref name="Why">Beaty, Katelyn (31 August 2017). "Why even conservative evangelicals are unhappy with the anti-LGBT Nashville Statement". ''The Washington Post''. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017.</ref><ref name="Attack">Cruz, Eliel (1 September 2017). "The Nashville Statement Is an Attack on L.G.B.T. Christians". ''New York Times''. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017.</ref><ref name="prompts">Williams, Hattie (1 September 2017). "Nashville statement on sexuality prompts response from LGBT-supporting Christians". ''Church Times''. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017.</ref> The Statement expresses support for marriage between one man and one woman, for faithfulness within marriage, for chastity outside marriage, and for a link between biological sex and "self-conception as male and female".<ref name="auto">[https://cbmw.org/nashville-statement/ Nashville Statement]. CBMW. Archived from the original on 24 February 2018.</ref> The Statement sets forth the signatories' opposition to [[LGBT]] sexuality, [[same-sex marriage]],<ref name="Why"/> [[polygamy]], [[polyamory]], [[adultery]], and [[fornication]].<ref name="auto"/> It was criticized by [[egalitarian Christians]] and LGBT activists,<ref name="prompts"/><ref>[https://www.christiantoday.com/article/evangelicals.and.the.nashville.statement.what.is.the.point/112827.htm Evangelicals and the Nashville Statement: What is the point?]. Christian Today. 31 August 2017. Archived from the original on 1 September 2017.</ref> and several conservative religious figures.<ref name="Why"/>