Christian conservative leaders are endorsing prenatal treatments to help prevent homosexuality.
Rev. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes, “If a biological basis is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual orientation to heterosexual is ever developed, we would support its use as we should unapologetically support the use of any appropriate means to avoid sexual temptation and the inevitable effects of sin.” In an AP interview, Mohler says this would be morally no different from curing fetal blindness or any other “medical problem.”
But isn’t one of the big beefs these wingnuts have with homosexuality the fact that it’s supposedly so unnatural? If the fetuses are already gay in the womb, wouldn’t that tend to support the idea that homosexuality is an inborn trait? I can’t get my brain around this kind of thinking. I wonder, if there were some way to test for homosexuality in the womb, how many godbags would opt for an abortion?
Yeah, great idea. Once you find out something is *natural,* go and do something completely *unnatural* to “fix” it.
I can’t wrap my head around this either. Sheesh.
Well, in a way it makes sense. If there’s something inherently immoral about homosexuality, it makes sense to support treating it prenatally while still condemning adults who have gay sex. For a good analogy, think of a hypothetical gene increasing one’s proclivity to commit murder.
It’s the “It’s unnatural” argument that is bunk, because ultimately, that something is unnatural has no bearing on its morality. Living past 45 is unambiguously unnatural for humans. So, for that matter, is having a religion.
ha. if “coming out” wasn’t already such a difficult thing to deal with, could you imaging “coming out” after you had already been vaccinated. ha ha ha… this is stupid.