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Christian symbols Well coming off that conversation with Katie Faust about surrogacy, it's a question that not only adults entertain, even children have questions about it.

Welcome back to issues, etc. It's our series, kids have questions. We will take up a question about spurn

ownership with Pastor Jonathan Carter. He is Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in

Manning, Iowa. Jonathan, welcome back. Thanks Todd, happy to be here.

So here's an interesting question from one of the kids.

Would being a sperm donor be a sin because wouldn't impregnating another woman be adultery?

Yeah, that isn't a great question?

Truly a phenomenal question.

So let's dive into this one.

There's just a lot to say here. So first of all, here's what I say to the child.

And then it's going to take me just a few minutes to work through it. But first I say to the child,

you are thinking rightly, God creates marriage. God places sex and procreation within marriage.

Donating sperm separates procreation from marriage.

Further, it reduces procreation, which is to happen through the act of sex between a husband and a wife to mere reproduction.

So it is a form of adultery.

It further reduces fatherhood to a donor. Children, however, deserve more than a donor. They

deserve a father. Further, it results in a man having children with dozens of

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