1. There is also research that is demonstrating that strong authoritarian beliefs are also brain-based. I strongly support any treatments that would fix this problem in utero and even would support the outright abortion of such fetuses.

Imagine a world without Southern Baptists! And wouldn't that be a good thing?

Posted at 9:20AM on Mar 9th 2007 by Jonathon

2. Albert Mohler is going to have his hands full wishing for in-utero cures for all the ways in which so-called original sin might present later in life.

I hope he's in support of a cure for men who cheat on their wives, too? Is there a cure for that in pipieline? If so, perhaps Newt Gingrich can be his poster boy since in today's news he admits to "[falling] short of God's standards."

"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group."

Gingrich Admits to Affair
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/gingrich-admits-affair-during-clinton/20070308224409990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

Not that being gay should be equated with cheating on one's wife. Being gay is way more respectable.

Posted at 9:48AM on Mar 9th 2007 by Kenneth

3. This man not only has a serious Messiah complex, he's projecting his own demons on everyone else. I would say he and Ted Haggard should get together, but I think Ted has better taste than that.

Posted at 1:49PM on Mar 9th 2007 by unpoetaloco

4. Hmm... does this mean that the Religious Right is acknowledging that homosexuality is a genetic issue, and not a choice...??

Posted at 1:53PM on Mar 9th 2007 by David

5. Try this in for size.
The human species is an enormously complex organism with self-regulating mechanisms having evolved over time. Its regulatory and protection systems aren't perfect, but they're good enough.
Not perfect: we humans have cancer, insanity, suicide, warfare, starvation, environmental degradation, mental and physical deformities, and... homosexuality. Good enough: we manage to survive. We may kill each other and ourselves,and have characteristics not supportive of species survival, but not to the point where our very existence is wiped out or survival seriously threatened. Even when huge numbers of humans were wiped out by plague, diarrhea/dysentary,cholera, warfare, the species/organism managed to carry on. Just as physical and medical infirmity is a not conducive to survival of the species, homosexuality can be viewed similarly,a flaw in the organism. Consider that it's not a coincidence that the percentage of members of the species practicing homosexuality (3-8%) has always held stable, and has never remotely approached a percentage that might threaten continued existence or gene pool diversity. Consider homosexuality as a defect in the human species/organism that the organism recognizes as a threat to its survival, and manages to keep in check. Perhaps, as the organism continues to evolve and adapt, things like infanticide, "ethnic cleansing," and other things not supportive of the continued survivial of the species, will be phased out.
Just an idea.

Posted at 2:00PM on Mar 9th 2007 by rick carlisle

6. Johnathon said it all. I could not agree more. Imagine aborting all right wing religious nutcases right in the womb.!!!!

Posted at 2:08PM on Mar 9th 2007 by maria Papi

7. I'll agree to it only as long as we are allowed to sterilize Baptists at the same time. I will say that he has just acknowledged that homosexual is a genetic/biological condition and that is a first for Baptist leadership!

Posted at 2:10PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Ex-Idiot

8. It's really too bad that an in utero technique to address religious myopia, and even religious retardation, could not have been discovered before October 19th, 1959...

Posted at 2:23PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Roberg Ozotzkit

9. Of the Southern Baptist that I know (1) almost all are white and (2) many are still largely biased against blacks, would Rev. Mohler support genetic engineering to make all humans white like the typical Southern Baptist? I suspect that he would.

Posted at 2:24PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Michael

10. Whenever I read something like this, the first thing I think now is that the guy is probably gay.

Posted at 2:25PM on Mar 9th 2007 by steve ex-expat

11. ignorant, close minded, Nazi asshole...

Posted at 2:25PM on Mar 9th 2007 by thomas

12. According to the article,"Mohler believes that homosexuality is one of God's ways of punishing us for original sin". How exactly is homosexuality a punishment?

Posted at 2:26PM on Mar 9th 2007 by CLM

13. Nice accidental admission-through-logic on the part of this Baptist toad: if homosexuality can be "fixed" genetically, then it is genetic, and therefore not subject to conscious choice. He just undermined the entire project of "curing" homsexuals through therapy.

Posted at 2:33PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Ted Haggard

14. Of course, should the genetic engineering result in a severe mutation - that's okay, as long as the results aren't homosexual.

Posted at 2:48PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Honest George

15. So Mohler wants to change God's will?!

Posted at 2:49PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Gina

16. Get them faggots,.. even if it means taking jack-hammer
to the womb, if them before the completion of the gestation process. Bring only the fixed fags into this world.

No wait,.. if you have to pierce the uterus wall to fix faggots, does that not prove faggot-ism a GENETIC
ABNORMALITY ?

These Southern Baptists Fascists are just amazing, they scream the words of the bible in one breath, while slapping the hand of God - because God has the audacity to bestow the heathen faggot on an otherwise perfect world.

God damn God,.. when it comes to perfection, he shirks his responsibilities that he owes to the world. Not to be judgemental or nothing. But God,.. let's get on the ball !!!! It is not mans job to crusade about correcting the goofups of God. Under these circumstances - Rather than man worshiping God,... shouldn't god really be worshiping MAN ?

Posted at 2:50PM on Mar 9th 2007 by pinko

17. Wait a minute? I thought these crack heads thought that being gay was a choice? If it were a choice, how the heck do you "cure" it at birth?

These neanderthals are the epitome of hypocrites. Idiots.

Posted at 2:52PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Ryan

18. Why stop with homosexuality? Let's neuter everyone! That will solve not only the problem of original sin.

Posted at 2:55PM on Mar 9th 2007 by Robert

19. How about genetically inserting a boot up this guy's ass?

Posted at 3:02PM on Mar 9th 2007 by flackman

20. So the gravity-is-just-a-theory fundamentalists might suspend their War on Science if science could help them eliminate the people they hate? Typical narrow-mindedness--wanting only *certain* scientific research to be done, and only if it comes up with the answers they want.

Mohler might as well pray for aliens to land and zap everyone with a magical anti-gay ray. Let him gnaw the ends of his hate, and to hell with him.

Posted at 3:23PM on Mar 9th 2007 by John