Scoring · Institutions & organizations
Southern Baptist Convention
The SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission framework — strongly pro-life, religious-liberty, traditional-marriage — aligns Abbott on SB 8, SB 10/11/763, SB 12/14/15, and the broader social-conservative package; he runs strongly with the SBC on essentially every published-priority dimension. Hinojosa runs against the SBC on abortion (SB 8 no-vote), LGBTQ (SB 14/12 no-votes), and church-state (SB 10/11 no-votes). The SBC does have a substantial immigration-reform strand (J.D. Greear, Russell Moore, Dwight McKissic) that complicates pure alignment with Abbott on Operation Lone Star. Abbott is the substantially closer SBC fit; Hinojosa picks up only the immigration-reform-strand credit. This is the cluster's clearest GOP-coded grader.
Sources
- Eleanor Klibanoff, 'Gov. Greg Abbott signs into law one of nation's strictest abortion bans,' Texas Tribune, May 19, 2021. (full list)
- Texas Tribune, 'Ten Commandments in Texas schools: SB 10 explained,' May 24, 2025. (full list)
- Eleanor Klibanoff, 'Texas bans gender-affirming care for trans minors,' Texas Tribune, June 2, 2023. (full list)
- Texas AFT, 'SB 12, the Parents Bill of Rights, deep dive,' 2025 — pronoun, DEI, and GSA provisions. (full list)
- Southern Baptist Convention, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission: pro-life, religious-liberty, traditional-marriage framework; immigration ambivalence. (full list)