Leading Southern Baptist suggests hormone patch for expectant mothers to prevent gayness

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: The Problem, in A Fundamental Nutshell: 'Is Your Baby Gay?'
By Lynne Duke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 18, 2007; Page D01


The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., one of the leading voices of the 16 million-strong Southern Baptist Convention, raised the possibility of a biological basis for homosexuality in his blog. (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Via Associated Press)

Pity the poor fetus. There's a lot coming its way. And now there's talk on a conservative evangelical blog of a hypothetical hormone patch that an expectant mother might wear to eradicate her fetus's natural gayness.

The patch, the biological determinism: It's all conjecture, for now. But it hit like a theological IED when it turned up earlier this month on the blog of the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., one of the leading voices of the 16 million-strong Southern Baptist Convention. He blogged on these issues under the appropriately provocative headline: "Is Your Baby Gay? What if You Could Know? What if You Could Do Something About It?" In his postings, he raises the possibility of a biological basis for homosexuality and prods his flock to think about how it should respond.

At a time when homosexuality in the military has reemerged as a flash point, causing presidential candidates to deflect and dance gingerly around the topic, Mohler has taken up the debate about the origins of homosexuality in a way he admits has roiled many in the Christian right.

For seeming to contradict a basic tenet of anti-gay thinking -- that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice, not a state of nature -- Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, was inundated with e-mails from readers who castigated him, he said on his blog Friday.

And for expressing his approval of a hypothetical prenatal intervention to change a baby's sexual orientation, he was verbally attacked by gay-rights advocates. Some of them likened him to the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele for seeming to advocate the manipulation of nature to "basically wipe out gay people," said Wayne R. Besen, founder of Truth Wins Out, a group that fights efforts to convert gays to heterosexuality....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701162.html

[Liberal In Texas]

1. Holy crap. These people are truly...er...NUTS. n/t

[Skittles]

2. how about a patch to prevent rightwing religious nutjobs

that would be f***ing wonderful

[KT2000]

3. Good one!

:rofl:

And that one should be mandatory.

[Swamp Rat]

5. AMEN SISTAH!!!

O8) O8) O8)

[murloc]

4. Next they'll be advocating abortions for gay fetuses

The twisted logic of these people knows no bounds.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. Welcome to DU murloc!!

:hi: :toast:

[murloc]

16. ty ty

[6000eliot]

6. Then he went off to score some meth from his manwhore.

[AshevilleGuy]

7. I have wondered how these hatemongers would respond to science

when it's proven that homosexuality is indeed biological and NOT chosen. So, even if "God" created fetuses in which homosexuality is predetermined, these assholes have the ARROGANCE to pronounce them still potentially 'sinful' and thus still in need of a correction!!!!!!!! Where the fuck do they GET OFF with this??????????

That fucking CLOSET CASE Mohler!! Yeah I have seen him on talk shows - it was obvious!! :mad:

[SoCalDem]

8. Imagine the dilemma of the fundy Mom carrying fraternal twins

boy-girl twin...(might be gay)

Which hormone patch to use? testosterone/estrogen...?

[Vidar]

9. Bearded fetuses labelled a sign of godliness.

[soothsayer]

10. even if they're girls?

[Vidar]

12. Then it is termed the Coulter miracle.

[keopeli]

11. If being "gay" is biological, then it can't be a sin. Why don't these nuts understand that?

If being gay is determined biologically, then the person has no choice and it can't be a sin. There's no "sin" in biology. In fact, the body is a miraculous creation of God.

When will the irony hit these people?

[Skittles]

13. they will counter with pedophiles

better to go with it's non of their g.d. business

[Kurovski]

15. Imagine the ads: "be assured your baby boy has an eye for the girls...

get our 'Snatch Patch' brand hormone adjuster TODAY!"

They are out of their Jesus-stomping minds.

[champt10]

17. One part I like

As sick as this story is, he just admitted that he thinks people are born being gay, and it isnt a choice.