Gender-Neutral Language Constitutional Amendment

Connecticut's proposed constitutional amendment presents itself as a simple housekeeping measure, a neutral update of outdated pronouns. But constitutional language is never merely cosmetic. The words embedded in a state's founding document carry interpretive weight for generations, shaping how courts read law, how agencies write policy, and how the public understands the categories the government recognizes as real and meaningful.

Scripture is unambiguous that God created human beings male and female (Genesis 1:27). This is not a sectarian opinion layered onto an otherwise neutral fact; it is the created order upon which human dignity, family structure, and civil society have been built across civilizations. When a state constitution is amended to treat biological sex as legally irrelevant, it does not simply update language. It makes an official declaration that the male-female distinction need not be recognized by the state's highest legal authority.

The downstream consequences of that declaration are serious. Faith-based organizations that operate according to a biblical anthropology, including schools, adoption agencies, shelters, and healthcare ministries, face growing legal pressure precisely because constitutional and statutory frameworks are being reoriented away from biological sex. Removing sex-specific language from the constitution accelerates that pressure by undercutting the legal foundation on which such distinctions have historically been defended.

Parental rights are similarly implicated. Parents who teach their children that sex is binary and created by God are increasingly at odds with official state messaging. A constitution revised to erase that binary lends institutional authority to an opposing view and invites its enforcement through public education, licensing requirements, and civil rights mechanisms.

The American Council recognizes that supporters of this resolution act from a sincere desire for inclusion. We do not question their motives. But good intentions do not change the effect of constitutional revision. Embedding gender-neutral ideology at the foundational level of state law is a consequential act with lasting implications for religious freedom, parental authority, and the legal recognition of biological reality.

For these reasons, The American Council opposes SJ00038 and urges Connecticut believers to contact their state legislators, attend public hearings, and make clear that rewriting the constitution to marginalize the male-female distinction is not a neutral update but a values-laden choice with costs that will fall heavily on communities of faith.