Baptist Reverend Albert Mohler Jr. made headlines when he advocated aborting would-be gay babies, writing:

If a biological basis is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual orientation to heterosexual is ever developed, we would support its use as we should unapologetically support the use of any appropriate means to avoid sexual temptation and the inevitable effects of sin.

Not surprisingly, these alarming comments made international headlines and riled gay activists. Gay activists Wayne Besen, however, wonders about turning the tables and eliminating religious fundamentalists.

As he reports, researchers in Minnesota have found evidence suggesting that religious leanings may be genetic.

In 2005, Laura Koenig, a psychology graduate student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, postulated a likely genetic link to spirituality by studying male fraternal and genetically identical twins. Koenig demonstrated that the identical twins had a much greater likelihood of sharing analogous religious beliefs into adulthood than the fraternal twins who were about a third less similar than they were as children.

What's more, some hold that righteous fundamentalism may be a psychological defect. According to Richard Dawkins, the Oxford professor who wrote The God Delusion:

Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was useful.

If world leaders rule this behavior detrimental, then, there's the possibility Mohler could find himself on the chopping block. That said, Besen goes on to say that Mohler and his cronies would be well-advised to "stop playing God" and "start accepting people exactly as God created them". Sound advise, we think, but there's one question: what about if a child's found to have a potentially fatal disease? Does one advocate a mercy killing before life's even begun? A dicey subject, to be sure. What say you, reader?