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Okay, creepy, but not as creepy as I thought, given the article clarifies that this isn't full-up organ harvesting. Given I'd like to some day have a large family, I could see a need motivating me to have another child I already wanted sooner. I can't see it at all as ethical to have a child...

Can you source this?

For Islam, not Christianity.

Why does one church need to answer to another? The only authority above the level of a specific church community I see in scripture is Apostolic authority, and aside from the Catholics' claims about the papacy, I'm not aware of any claims to modern Apostolic authority. Christ's sacrifice and...

Lobotomy was a practice that was massively over-used for a variety of reasons, generally horrifically. I recall reading like a decade or two ago about some fringe cases where serious, blatant brain damage can be alleviated with one, but for the most part, lobotomization was a sick fad used to...

Your capacity for hyperbole never ceases to amaze me. Can you point to a time in history when sodomy was a capital offense in the US? Last I recall, under the strictest laws any state ever had, it was an imprisonable offense, but never a capital offense. Do you have any evidence to counter this?

1. You're mischaracterizing the level of use it gets. As others have already pointed out, there's New Testament verses used to make the point about sexual ethics. 2. 'For their anti-gay bigotry.' I don't know if it could be any more transparent that you're not coming into this argument from an...

Fedora atheists focus on any old testament minutiae they can, because they must remain on the offensive at all times, otherwise it will become apparent they have no ability whatsoever to defend their own ideology.

Reasonable Christians make their religion the center of absolutely everything in their lives. The fact that you do not understand this, demonstrates the fact that you do not understand the mindset of someone who actually believes in God, not just treats religion as a mere cultural institution...

It was quite a bit more than that, but Sodom and Gomorrah were most known for such things. Sodom being the root for 'sodomize,' of course. Further on this should wait for forthcoming new thread.

So you want to come into the Conservative movement, and drive out or force the submission of it longest-running and largest constituency. While trying to lecture us on how what we believes works, and ignoring every time we try to explain that no, you don't actually understand it. Did you take...