The Associated Press reported March 14 on the rising "furor" over an article by Rev. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, for "suggesting that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay orientation would be biblically justified," according to the AP.
Both liberals and conservatives are upset. Liberals are angry Mohler would suggest correcting a homosexual predisposition, which infers it is a disorder. Some conservatives are angry Mohler would suggest there is a homosexual predisposition at all.
I am more interested in this part of Mohler's original article, which, of course, the AP ignored, having to do with the question of aborting babies if known to carry the so-called gay gene....
Read about the dilemma at www.jillstanek.com.
The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians (Originally Gays for Life) was founded after a scientist said he was working to identify a "gay gene." The idea that homosexuals might be targeted for abortion made some of them really think about what that said about how much society really accepted them. Then they realized how it devalued the disabled to say that a disability was grounds to abort a baby. And how it devalued the poor to use poverty as grounds for abortion. It caused an awakening.
PLAGAL members are the bravest members of the pro-life movement; they get attacked from the Right for being homosexual, and from the Left for rejecting abortion. They are constantly under attack yet they stand firm. I think we ought to be more welcoming of them. (And we don't need to scream at them about homosexuality being sinful; they've heard it all before. We don't need to embrace their sexual behaviors to embrace them as people -- remember "Hate the sin, love the sinner"?)