Evangelical Leader Responds to Attacks on Gay Baby Article
The media storm over an evangelical leader's blog post on babies and homosexuality prompted him to set the record straight on Friday.
Recent media reports have claimed that the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, suggested that homosexuality may be genetic in origin and that he would support "treatment" of it.
In response, Mohler stated, "My purpose in writing my previous article was, in the main, to draw attention to a very real threat to human dignity that lurks as a possibility on our horizon ... This is the possibility that, if a biological marker (real or not) is ever claimed to mark homosexuality in prenatal testing, widespread abortion of such babies might well follow," according to his latest blog post. "In that event, hypothetical in the present time, it will be biblical Christians, opposed to all elective abortions, who will stand for the full...