Genetic Cleansing for God

OK, it is 5 o’clock on a Friday afternoon, but I just couldn’t let this one slip under the radar without mention.

Richard Rothstein at Queer Sighted has a disturbing story on Rev. R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

According to Rothstein:

One of the nation's leading Southern Baptists has called for a policy that would support medical treatment, if it were to become available, to change the sexual orientation of a fetus inside its mother's womb from homosexual to heterosexual. This latest assault on our dignity and existence comes from no less a personage than Rev. R. Albert Mohler, the president of the prominent and influential Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.

Mohler poses this question to his followers:

What if you could know that your unborn baby boy is likely to be sexually attracted to other boys?

It seems the good reverend advocates genetically altering those undesirable gay fetuses in utero to, you know, straighten them out a bit.

According to Mohler:

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," Mohler wrote in advice for Christians.

Mohler restates his opposition to aborting fetuses or embryos who "are identified as homosexual in orientation," but said advancement on determining a biological basis for such orientation should be used "for the greater glory of God.

Actually, Mohler has posted his own ‘ten commandments,’ of which this one is number ten:

Christians must be very careful not to claim that science can never prove a biological basis for sexual orientation. We can and must insist that no scientific finding can change the basic sinfulness of all homosexual behavior. The general trend of the research points to at least some biological factors behind sexual attraction, gender identity, and sexual orientation. This does not alter God's moral verdict on homosexual sin (or heterosexual sin, for that matter), but it does hold some promise that a deeper knowledge of homosexuality and its cause will allow for more effective ministries to those who struggle with this particular pattern of temptation. If such knowledge should ever be discovered, we should embrace it and use it for the greater good of humanity and for the greater glory of God.

Perhaps I am missing something here, but this sure sounds like playing God to me.

Worth a Thousand Lashes

World Cup 2006

One look at Iran Team Melli midfielder Javad Nekounam (above) might explain why despite the country's ban on females entering football stadiums, some Iranian women sneak into the games disguised as males. Can't say I blame them.

In April Iran's ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that the women's stadium ban would be lifted, but the order was vetoed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

BBC News reports "Six grand ayatollahs and several MPs have protested against the move, saying it violates Islamic law for a woman to look at the body of a male stranger....and it is wrong for men and women to look at each other's bodies, even if they have no intention of taking pleasure from it."

Forgive me Allah, for I have sinned. Big time.

In Germany for the World Cup 2006 Games Iran Team captain Ali Daei said he supports the ban and that stadiums are too rowdy for women and the stadium ban issue should be decided by Iranians, not outsiders.

"I personally think they should relax this ban so women can go to stadiums but considering the atmosphere in stadiums and the respect we have for women it might not be appropriate at this time," Daei stated.

"There's no danger at all but there are a lot of bad things being chanted and there's a lot of shouting at each other and we have respect for women, we don't want them to see that."

I think Daei is correct, this should be decided by Iranians and no one else.

But excuse me for being a skeptic....just why is it whenever I hear someone claim they want to 'protect women' it ultimately means restrict women?

And if there really exists this 'respect for women' of which Ali Daei speaks, then why don't Iranian males clean up their own acts instead of denying half of the population the opportunity to see their national football team play on the home field?

Sunday, June 11, Noon FINAL: Mexico 3 - 1 Iran
Saturday, June 17, 9:00 FINAL Portugal 2 - 0 Iran
Wednesday, June 21, 10:00 FINAL Iran 1 - 1 Angola

Missouri: The Show Me (your pregnancy test results) State

Professional female wrestler, Julie Utley, claims the state of Missouri is infringing on her right to privacy.

Utley is one of 100 women boxers and wrestlers licensed by the state of Missouri and under law she is required to provide proof one week prior to a match that she is not pregnant.

Utley refuses to submit to the pregnancy test and has not wrestled since March.

Utley claims the pregnancy tests, which must be performed by a doctor, would cost her about $60 a month.

See June 9, 2006 article here:

Apparently, Missouri is taking the lead on the new CDC federal guidelines that all females are treated as pre-pregnant.

What’s next? Requiring a pregnancy test before a female can buy a pack of cigarettes or a six-pack? go horseback riding?