The proposal had been submitted by Eric Teetsel, who serves as president of the Family Policy Alliance of Kansas and is also a Republican Party State Committee member. Teetsel is the son-in-law of former Gov. Sam Brownback.

“[A]ll persons are created in God’s image and, therefore, have inherent dignity and inalienable rights,” the resolution, approved on Saturday by a voice vote, reads. “God’s design was the creation of two distinct complementary sexes, male and female.”

It laments, therefore, that society has sought to make that which is a distortion of God’s creation acceptable and normal. ...