And yet there are chinks in the armor. Every time a Holy Terror attempts to justify his thoughts and actions, he manages to demonstrate the illogic and sheer stupidity of his position. As a wise man once said, "It is better to remain silent and have people think you're an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Case in point:
Furor over Baptist's gay-baby article
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
Wed Mar 14, 5:59 PM ET
NEW YORK - The president of the leading Southern Baptist seminary has incurred sharp attacks from both the left and right by suggesting that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay orientation would be biblically justified.
The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., one of the country's pre-eminent evangelical leaders, acknowledged that he irked many fellow conservatives with an article earlier this month saying scientific research "points to some level of biological causation" for homosexuality.
Proof of a biological basis would challenge the belief of many conservative Christians that homosexuality — which they view as sinful — is a matter of choice that can be overcome through prayer and counseling.
The emphases are mine.
Get all that? The Holy Terrors argue that homosexuality is a choice, not a part of one's genetic makeup. This way, they can argue that homosexuals can be persecuted because they simply made the wrong choice. If homosexuality were something one was born with, such as one's skin color, that'd remove one of their justifications for their bigotry.
So, Reverend Mohler appears to be saying, "mmmmmmmmmaybe there's a scientific basis for homosexuality." He's not following the script. Never mind that the Holy Terrors treat science like a four-letter word. This is big.
But wait. It gets better.
However, Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., was assailed even more harshly by gay-rights supporters. They were upset by his assertion that homosexuality would remain a sin even if it were biologically based, and by his support for possible medical treatment that could switch an unborn gay baby's sexual orientation to heterosexual.
"He's willing to play God," said Harry Knox, a spokesman on religious issues for the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group. "He's more than willing to let homophobia take over and be the determinant of how he responds to this issue, in spite of everything else he believes about not tinkering with the unborn."
Again, the emphases are mine.
So, Rev. Mohler is saying, "Okay. Maybe you can be born gay. However, your loving parents can hopefully save you from assholes like myself by subjecting you to some kind of medical treatment to switch you back from DC current to AC."
As barbaric and stupid as this all sounds, it gets even worse.
(Rev. Mohler) also referred to a recent article in the pop-culture magazine Radar, which explored the possibility that sexual orientation could be detected in unborn babies and raised the question of whether parents — even liberals who support gay rights — might be open to trying future prenatal techniques that would reverse homosexuality.
Mohler said he would strongly oppose any move to encourage abortion or genetic manipulation of fetuses on grounds of sexual orientation, but he would endorse prenatal hormonal treatment — if such a technology were developed — to reverse homosexuality. He said this would no different, in moral terms, to using technology that would restore vision to a blind fetus.
"I realize this sounds very offensive to homosexuals, but it's the only way a Christian can look at it," Mohler said. "We should have no more problem with that than treating any medical problem."
Mohler's argument was endorsed by a prominent Roman Catholic thinker, the Rev. Joseph Fessio, provost of Ave Maria University in Naples, Fla., and editor of Ignatius Press, Pope Benedict XVI's U.S. publisher.
"Same-sex activity is considered disordered," Fessio said. "If there are ways of detecting diseases or disorders of children in the womb, and a way of treating them that respected the dignity of the child and mother, it would be a wonderful advancement of science."
What a titanic load of bullshit. In one breath, the Holy Terrors condemn homosexuality as a sin, and in the next they consider it a disease or a "disorder." Make up your fucking minds!
Actually, now that I think about it, they don't have to. In the first place, before you make up your mind, you need a mind to make up with. In the second place, the self-righteous have been painting the sick with the sinners ever since Job's friends said, "Sorry about the boils and pestilence and the deaths of your children, dude. What'd you do to piss God off?"
But I digress.
Such logic dismayed Jennifer Chrisler of Family Pride, a group that supports gay and lesbian families.
"What bothers me is the hypocrisy," she said. "In one breath, they say the sanctity of an unborn life is unconditional, and in the next breath, it's OK to perform medical treatments on them because of their own moral convictions, not because there's anything wrong with the child."
Amen, sister. This is hypocrisy, pure and simple. Again, it's a concept with which the Holy Terrors are very familiar. The good news is that once they give in and admit homosexuality isn't really a choice, they've got one less rationale for their bigotry. That won't stop them from thinking up new ones, of course, but the new ones will be even more stupid and brainless than are the current talking points.
And it only took them...what? Four hundred years to admit they were wrong about that whole "sun-goes-around-the-earth" bullshit? Sorry, Galileo about that whole Inquisition thing. No hard feelings?
P.S. I just had to make one more comment on Rev. Mohler's outlook on all this. Quoting again:
"I realize this sounds very offensive to homosexuals, but it's the only way a Christian can look at it," Mohler said.
Ummm...I thought of another way a Christian can look at it. Just spitballing, here. How about treating homosexuals with the same love, understanding, respect and compassion with which you'd like to be treated? You know, "do unto others as you would have done unto you" and all that?
Just a thought.
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