If there were prenatal testing to determine if your child was going to be gay, would you use it? This provocative idea, still a fantasy, is being debated in some Christian and gay circles after the Rev. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, wrote about it on his blog last week.
The headline was “Is Your Baby Gay? What if You Could Know? What if You Could Do Something About It?” Mohler said he would approve of an intervention, if someone invented one, to change the baby’s sexual orientation in utero if tests showed he or she were going to be gay.
This is interesting because many conservative Christians believe homosexuality is a lifestyle choice, not determined biologically. Mohler said he would not support abortion or gene therapy, but might support something less invasive, like a hormone patch.
Gay rights groups, of course, were infuriated. Harry Knox of the Human Rights Campaign told The Washington Post: “My word for [Christian conservatives] is they should be more focused on repentance for the sins they have committed against homosexuals than on manipulating the next generation of the unborn.”
