Regarding issues of human sexuality, the ABCUSA is consistent in its approach and allows each congregation to determine whether or not to perform same-sex marriages or ordain LGBT clergy. The ABCUSA General Board voted in 2005 to amend the statement "We Are American Baptists" to define marriage as "between one man and one woman" and declare that "the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Biblical teaching." However, the denomination never officially adopted the board's statement and also stated that it will "respect and will continue to respect congregational freedom on this issue". Each local congregation is autonomous and permitted to perform same-sex marriages if they opt to do so. For example, Calvary Baptist Church in D.C., affiliated with the ABCUSA, performs same-sex marriages. In 2013, an ABCUSA congregation in Washington D.C., ordained the denomination's first openly transgender pastor.