Remember The Movie Gattaca?

While I am typically rather annoyed by whatever is coming out of the mouth of Albert Mohler, current President of the Southwestern Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, he has really decided to go for the gold this time.

You can read the entire article here as well as probably many other variations elsewhere...but he has begun to suggest that perhaps there are some biological factors that go into making a person be a homosexual. He also says that because of this parents may be able to have tests run on their children prenatally to determine whether or not their child will be gay. And if they are, then there are preventative measures that can be taken to reverse it.

He will also, as a Baptist, continue to endorse the idea that homosexual behaviour is a sin and disorder both on the sociological and physiological level.

All I have to say is...WOW!

In my opinion, here we have a man who is neither a highly astute theologian or scientist/biologist and he is able to go public to make these claims. Where does he get off? He claims that his role in this is just to "get the conversation started." Well he has succeeded. Christians are upset at the very suggestion that homosexuality could be an issue of biology rather than sin. Leftists are upset at the suggestion that it could be an issue of sin on top of biology. I think that Dr. Mohler just likes the press time.

I just want to know what kind of tests they think they can run on these fetuses. To my knowledge nobody has yet found a "gay gene" even from those who are currently living and gay. So what do these tests consist of? Do they draw blood? Does an ultrasound reveal gay decorating habits or a special lisp in their speech?

And what if they were able to try and reverse it? Do they inject something? Do they strap headphones on the mothers belly that plays sermons by Dr. Mohler? Hypnotic infusion? Inject an antidote? And what if, like a kidney or heart transplant, the recipient's body rejects it? Would/could the child die? Perhaps that is a risk that Dr. Mohler is willing to take? Better a dead baby than a gay one? I know that sounds harsh but these guys are getting fruitier by the hour!

The purpose of the reference to the movie Gattaca is that it deals with this very issue. Parents are able to chose what kind of child they want; eye colour, hair colour, blood type...in essence they can create the perfect child. Anything less than perfect is then quarantined and destroyed as it is considered a pollution to the rest of the race.

Another similar tie-in could also be the movie The Island where they are actually trying to harvest beings in a Utopian society where they brainwash them to think that everything on the outside is polluted or cursed.

I can't say for certain that this is where all of this is headed but there are sure some striking similarities. I'll be surprised if one day we don't end up wiping ourselves out completely.