STB Law 4, pt.1

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The STB Law 4
Section 1

by Anonymous



	After the World Economic Collapse of 2002 spread throughout 
the developed world, with economy after economy collapsing into ruin, 
the Christian Coalition redoubled its efforts to gain political power 
in the United States.  They knew that in the depths of a deep 
depression, Americans would be ready for a major change.  The 
Coalition was well organized and their goal of creating a truly 
Christian country in their image was widely accepted.  In the 
election of 2004, Gary Bauer was elected president of the United 
States.  Supporters of the Christian Coalition took nearly two thirds 
of the House of Representatives and over three quarters of the Senate 
seats up for election.  This brought them a majority of that house as 
well.  For the first time, devout Christians were in full control of 
the U.S. government.  



	One of the Þrst acts of the new government was to pass the 
Christian Morality and Pro-Life Act of 2005.  The act made all forms 
of birth control a capital crime and made the possession of any books 
or other materials detailing contraception a felony punishable by a 
minimum of Þve years in prison.  The government had begun its long 
and important task to create the Christian Kingdom of Heaven on earth.



	Immediately, all abortion clinics were closed and the sale of 
condoms and birth control pills ended.  Quickly, there was also an 
explosion in the number of pregnancies and childbirths.  The 
resulting explosion in population quickly created challenges for 
every father in providing food and clothing for his large and growing 
family. Within only a few years, large, impoverished families became 
the norm. In the past a family of two or three children was most 
common.  Now the norm for a family was a new pregnancy nearly every 
year. The wife was more or less constantly pregnant and most families 
soon had eight or nine children and many had more, with yet more on 
the way.  



	Major concern began to set in when it was pointed out that 
with modern public health, it would not be unusual for a healthy 
woman to have Þfteen to sixteen children in her lifetime if she did 
not use any contraception.  God’s law seemed to preclude any attempt 
to prevent conception or to terminate pregnancies.  While everyone 
agreed that Christian morality had to come Þrst, there was some fear 
of the economic and social consequences of a population that could 
grow by seven or eight times in each generation.  



	As it became increasingly clear that the situation was 
serious, theologians began to grapple with the problems of 
stabilizing a population while using nothing but strictly Christian 
means.  A national debate began on what to do about the impending 
crisis as the population would soon grow beyond any possible food 
supply.  Many argued that God would provide and that nothing need be 
done.  However, most believed that man’s free will required that 
there be a human action to solve the problem.  Everyone knew, though, 
that the answer would be found through the study of God’s word in the 
Bible.  It was clear to all that God had already provided the 
solution to this question, but it was man’s duty to discover God’s 
word and to follow it exactly.  People began to devoutly read the 
Scriptures seeking divine guidance.  

	

	All true Christians knew that the ideal Christian solution 
for the population problem would be for everyone to lead celibate 
lives.  The words of Christ clearly favor chastity.  Paul, 
especially, describes celibacy as the Christian ideal.   However, it 
was also well known that most people are absolutely incapable of 
leading a completely chaste life.  Even a life of only slightly 
restricted sexual activity was extremely difficult for most men.  It 
was pointed out by many observers that even Catholic priests who had 
elected to dedicate their lives to serving God had an a very 
difficult time remaining celibate.  A majority of even this small 
self-selected group, who received the vocation of serving God, were 
unable to totally abstain from sexual activity.  While history showed 
that chastity was possible for most women, it was clearly impossible 
for most men. What were ordinary Christians expected to do to prevent 
the population explosion?  



	As the debate continued, a number of politicians and 
theologians pointed out that eunuchs are mentioned favorably in both 
the Old and the New Testaments and that Jesus himself spoke very 
strongly that all true Christians should consider castration for the 
Kingdom of Heaven’s sake.  "For there are some eunuchs, which were so 
born from their mother's womb; and there are some eunuchs, which were 
made eunuchs of men; and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves 
eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive 
it, let him receive it." (Matthew 19:12)  The goal of the Christian 
Coalition was to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and castration 
was clearly described by Jesus himself as one positive step toward 
that goal.  Castration would allow men to easily maintain the total 
celibacy which Christ advocated for all true Christians. 



	Some scholars noted, too, that many of the early Christians, 
including some important Church fathers such as Origen, had devoutly 
followed Jesus’ injunction and had castrated themselves for the sake 
of their Christian faith.  Their example had been followed by many 
highly devout Christians through the centuries since.  



	Others noted that a number of eunuchs had shown themselves to 
be especially devoted to God, even before Christ was born.  One of 
the greatest of the prophets, Daniel, was a eunuch.  Nehemiah, who 
supervised the rebuilding of the walls and gates of Jerusalem after 
the Babylonian exile was a eunuch.  The most frequent Sunday school 
exemplars of devotion to God, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were 
all eunuchs.  It went without saying that one of the important early 
missionaries of Christ’s Church to Africa, the Ethiopian eunuch, had 
been castrated.  



	Yet others noted that for several centuries during the very 
Christian Byzantine Empire, devout families frequently castrated 
their second and later sons, sometimes as early as their Þrst year, 
so that they would remain chaste and could more easily enter the 
Kingdom of Heaven.  Many important members of the Byzantine Church 
hierarchy were eunuchs, as were many Byzantine government ofÞcials.  
For example, Narses, one of the most important Byzantine generals, 
had been castrated as a small boy.  



	A number of Byzantine saints were eunuchs, including St. 
Ignatius, the youngest son of the Emperor Michael I, who was 
castrated when he was fourteen years old so that he might devote his 
life more completely to Christ’s work.  God’s favor had clearly 
followed the Byzantines, and their devoutly Christian empire was the 
longest lasting so far in history.  It fell to the Turks only after 
it had become much less Christian (and the practice of castration had 
become much less frequent).  



	Of course, it was quickly pointed out that any new law would 
not affect current politicians and church ofÞcials.  It was not 
expected that they would be castrated, though their young sons and 
grandsons might become eunuchs to honor the Lord and to help create 
the Kingdom of Heaven.  These boys could be allowed to become eunuchs 
for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake.  



	Finally, after long and rancorous debate both by the public 
and by the politicians and theologians, the Family Management Law of 
2025 was created for the purpose of  	

          (1) stabilizing an out of control birth rate through purely 
Christian means, following the exact word of God as found in the 
Bible,

          (2)  limiting the number of males who could have families, 
thus limiting the number of children who would be born, and 

          (3) providing a way for families with many children to 
improve their living standards with a very generous government 
payment.



	The law provided that a Population Stabilization Board (STB) 
would be established for each Congressional District in the country 
with local branches in each community.  Each local clinic would be 
staffed with one or more physicians, depending on the size of the 
community.  Every male in the district would be examined by an STB 
doctor to assess his level of sexual maturity on his twelfth birthday 
and every three months thereafter until he reached Stage 3 of the Þve 
stages of puberty.  At that point a letter would be sent to the boy’s 
father and to the Internal Revenue Service, notifying them that the 
boy had reached sexual maturity.  



	First sons would then receive frequent and intense government-
mandated instruction both in church and in school on their Christian 
duty to remain chaste until marriage.  They would be constantly 
reminded of  their duty to produce many Christian children to honor 
the Lord.  They would all receive special religious instruction to 
make certain that they understood their important role as eldest son 
and the importance of absolute chastity until marriage.  They would 
also receive frequent instruction on the sins of masturbation and 
fornication.  



	Second and later sons would receive intense religious 
instruction on the many eunuchs mentioned in the Bible and on their 
Christian obligation to become eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s 
sake as soon as possible.  Their duty to obey the exact words of 
Jesus as expressed in the Bible would be reinforced.  In addition to 
Sunday School lessons, they would receive special attention in their 
physical education and social studies classes.  Their state of sexual 
maturity would also be examined every three months after this date 
until they either reached their twenty-Þrst birthday or had been 
castrated.  



	Beginning two weeks after notiÞcation that a second or later 
son had reached Stage 3 of puberty, the Internal Revenue Service 
would begin imposing a tax of 25% of the family’s total annual income 
for any boy, other than the eldest son in the family, who had reached 
Stage 3, but who had not yet become a eunuch for the Kingdom of 
Heaven’s sake.  The tax would be collected monthly until the boy 
either reached the age of twenty-one or had followed Jesus’s 
injunction and had become a eunuch.  If a father decided to submit 
his son to the STB, he would be granted $20,000, tax free, as soon as 
the son was castrated.  





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STAGES OF SEXUAL MATURITY



STAGE 1:  The penis, testes, and scrotum are about the same size and 
proportions as in early childhood.



STAGE 2:  The testes have clearly begun to grow and the penis may 
also show evidence of some slight growth.  There is growth of long, 
lightly pigmented downy hair at the base of the penis, but there is 
no facial hair yet.



STAGE 3:  The penis has deÞnitely increased in length and somewhat in 
diameter.  The testes are larger than those of boys in Stage 2.  
There is the Þrst sparse growth of pubic hair similar to that of an 
adult at the base of the penis.  About half the boys at this stage 
will have a small amount of lightly pigmented downy hair at the 
corners of their upper lips.  Since a boy’s voice does not break 
until he has reached at least this stage, it may be taken as 
diagnostic that Stage 3 has been reached.  This stage may be reached 
by some boys as early as their twelfth year, but is most commonly 
attained during the thirteenth or early fourteenth year.  



STAGE 4:  In boys of Stage 4 the testes are usually somewhat larger—
occasionally, considerably larger—than those of boys in Stage 3.  The 
penis, too, has increased further in size, especially in diameter.  
The hair on the pubic region resembles that of the adult in type, but 
covers only a small area.  The facial hair has increased and there is 
a moderate amount of short, lightly pigmented hair on the upper lip.



STAGE 5:  The penis and testes of boys in Stage 5 have reached their 
adult size.  In boys who reach this stage before they reach full 
height, the genitalia may appear especially large in proportion to 
the body.  The pubic hair is typically adult both in quantity and 
type.

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	Until the custom was Þrmly established, it was expected that 
many fathers would try to pay the tax so that their sons would keep 
their testicles.  Despite Jesus’s words favoring castration, they 
would not want their sons to become eunuchs.  But, since many 
families had Þve or six sons, it would not be possible for them to 
pay the tax for more than one or two of them, and extremely difÞcult 
even to pay for one.  It was expected that after the effects of the 
law became widely known, most fathers would voluntarily bring their 
sons to the STB clinic for castration before the two week period was 
up and they had to begin paying the high tax.  Because of the tax, it 
was expected that they would do this regardless of the wishes of 
their sons.  



	It was also expected that the religious instruction would 
eventually induce most boys to seek to persuade their fathers to 
allow them to become eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake.  
Sermons in church, Sunday school lessons, and class discussions with 
their social studies and physical education teachers would help to 
persuade them of the rightness of this decision.  Within only a few 
months after the passage of the law, most younger sons were anxious 
to be good Christians and to become eunuchs as soon as they met the 
sexual maturity requirement.  



	It quickly became clear that most people had become much more 
Christian and far more obedient of authority in the twenty years 
since the establishment of the Christian United States in the 
election of 2005.  Within less than a month after the passage of the 
law and the Þrst imposition of the new tax, most fathers were 
bringing their sons for castration within only a few days after the 
notiÞcation was received, sometimes without even telling their sons 
that they were being taken to the STB clinic to be castrated until 
they arrived at the clinic door.  Sometimes the boys even thought 
that they had only been brought to the clinic for a routine physical 
examination until they were undressed and the doctor and nurse 
arrived to remove their testicles.  However, within only a couple of 
months, most younger sons were anxious to receive their father’s 
permission so that they could follow Jesus’s injunction and join the 
Army of God as soon as possible.  



	At first, many of the eldest sons swaggered around both 
school and community advertising that they still had their balls. 
But, very quickly, everyone realized that over 80% of all boys would 
be castrated before their fourteenth birthday.  Already, over half of 
all junior high boys, all but one in six or seven high school boys, 
and a great many young men had been castrated.  Eunuchs would soon be 
in the majority and within a few years uncastrated men would become 
rare.  



	Because they were sterile, sexless, and much more gentle, the 
eunuchs quickly became far more popular with girls than were the 
eldest sons.  They were nicer to date than were the intact boys.  The 
girls knew that a few of them would have to marry intact boys someday 
to produce a great many Christian children, but until that time, the 
eunuchs were far more fun to be with.  The social expectations in 
high school quickly shifted to focus on the eunuchs.  They became the 
role models for style and behavior.  Peer pressure made immediate 
castration desirable for all boys, whether they were younger sons or 
not.  Most boys did not want to wait until they reached Stage 3 to 
become soldiers for the Lord.  



	After only a few years, the instructional programs for boys 
who had reached Stage 3 required signiÞcant adjustment.  The priority 
given to following the exact words of Jesus and becoming a eunuch for 
the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake and the influence of eunuchs becoming 
the majority had led a great many Þrst sons to try to castrate 
themselves so that they, too, might become soldiers in the Army of 
God.  



	Under the influence of the Mormon Church, the State of Utah 
had legalized polygamy in 2007, arguing that it had clearly been 
sanctioned in the Old Testament.  The case was argued through the 
U.S. Supreme Court, which eventually ruled in favor of the law 
permitting polygamy.  The Mormon Church with its strong emphasis on 
patriarchy and the importance of male children argued after the STB 
Law was passed in 2025 that the first-born son of each wife was 
entitled to remain uncastrated without tax penalty.  



	Finally in 2031, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the tax 
exemption applied only to the first-born son of each male, regardless 
of the number of his wives or of which wife the son was born.  Or 
even if the Þrst son were born out of wedlock.  



	Three days after the Supreme Court decided the case of Smith 
v. I.R.S., the Internal Revenue Service issued an advisory notice on 
back taxes due from all of those Mormon fathers who had neither paid 
the 25% income tax on each of their sons who now fell under the STB 
Law nor had requested the castration of such sons.  These fathers 
were given two weeks to pay all back taxes due, with interest.  If 
the son was castrated within those two weeks, the tax bill would be 
waived, though the father would not receive the normal $20,000 family 
support payment unless the son had not yet reached his fourteenth 
birthday.	



	Since the Mormon Church valued patriarchy so highly, the 
I.R.S. allowed that Mormon fathers would have paid the required tax 
for any second son who had been within six months of his twenty-Þrst 
birthday on the effective date of the STB Law.  The I.R.S. allowed 
payment of a tax equal to 25% of the father’s income for those six 
months plus interest due to the present for such sons.  This could 
equal as much as 50% of the father’s total annual income, due in full 
within the next two weeks for each such son if he were not now 
castrated.  Some of these "boys" could now be as old as twenty-six.  



	Since Mormon modesty had led the Mormon Church to argue that 
Þrst sons should not be subject to the regular quarterly sexual 
maturity examinations by the STB doctors, the I.R.S. decided that all 
Mormon boys who had not been examined by an STB doctor should be 
considered to have reached Stage 3 on their twelfth birthday.  This 
meant that Mormon fathers owed the 25% annual income tax, plus 
interest, for all second sons effective as of the date that they 
turned twelve years old.  This was also due in full within two weeks 
unless such son(s) were castrated within that time period.



	For sons who had already reached their twelfth birthday, but 
who were younger than twenty years and six months as of the effective 
date of the STB Law, the I.R.S. assumed that the son would have been 
castrated and that the father therefore owed the 25% annual tax for 
all six years to the present date.  Even if the son would have 
reached age twenty-one within only seven months, the I.R.S. argued 
that the son should have been castrated, hence the tax was due for 
each month up to the present.  With interest, this would come to over 
twice the family’s total annual income.  Again, this tax bill was due 
within two weeks if the son were not immediately scheduled to have 
his testicles removed.  



	STB doctors from all over the U.S. were þown to Utah and 
southern Idaho to perform the thousands of additional castrations 
which were required during the next two weeks.  



	Three months after the Supreme Court decided Smith v. I.R.S., 
Senator Trent Abercrombie of South Carolina proposed a bill to 
require the immediate castration of all sons of those Mormon young 
men who had recently been castrated.  He argued that the sons should 
never have been conceived, since under the STB Law their fathers 
should have been castrated before they could have married.  The law 
easily passed the Senate, but failed by two votes to gain a majority 
in the House of Representatives.  The Mormon Church made a major 
lobbying effort to save the testicles of those hundreds of boys, none 
of whom had yet reached his Þfth birthday, though only the Þrst born 
of them would, of course, avoid castration once they reached Stage 3. 



	Senator Abercrombie’s public statement that he wanted to 
provide a thousand castrati for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and that 
he thought that Mormon hymns sounded best in soprano probably did not 
help his cause.  



	In the late 2020s, though, the National Association of Choir 
Directors had begun petitioning to allow for the castration of 
younger boys who had beautiful voices worthy of preservation to 
better praise the Lord.  It had become clear that nearly all second 
and later sons would be castrated immediately once they reached Stage 
3, by which time their voices had already broken—or would do so 
anyway in most cases.  Not castrating at a younger age those with 
beautiful voices to praise God seemed a waste of a precious national 
resource.  



	The Choir Directors pointed out the long and distinguished 
history of castrati in the church choirs of both Europe and the 
Byzantine Empire.  They also pointed out that many of the most 
popular secular singers of the 17th and 18th centuries had been 
castrati and that castrati stars could serve as role models for young 
boys anticipating their own eventual castration.  



	Finally in 2032 a law was passed allowing the castration of 
choir boys who had reached their tenth birthday.  Required was a 
petition to the STB from the boy’s choir director, minister, and 
father.  The STB was required to investigate by seeking outside 
conÞrmation of the quality of the boy’s voice before deciding to 
perform the surgery.  The law also allowed a Þrst-born son to be 
castrated to preserve his voice, for the glorification of God, if 
there were a later son who could eventually father children and to 
whom his exemption could be passed.  It was noted with interest by 
many (and satisfaction by some) that one of Senator Trent 
Abercrombie’s grandsons was castrated on his tenth birthday less than 
two years after the passage of the bill.



	In 2035 an amendment to the STB Law was passed allowing men 
who had fathered at least twelve children to voluntarily present 
themselves to the nearest STB clinic for castration at government 
expense.  Many men decided that they did not want their wives to 
suffer through any more pregnancies than that.  And many wives 
strongly encouraged their husbands to seek castration as soon as 
their twelfth child was born.  Abstinence and castration were the 
only truly Christian forms of birth control, and it was well known 
that was nearly impossible for any intact male to totally abstain 
from sex.  Even a majority of Catholic priests had been unable to 
totally fulÞll their vows of chastity.  





	The STB Law, and the various additions which had been made to 
it, had allowed the total population of the Christian United States 
to reach a maximum of only a little over one and a half billion.  The 
Christian United States of America had become the largest country in 
the world, surpassing both China and India in population.  It was 
also, by far, the most Christian country in the world.  



	The success of the STB Law in halting rapid population growth 
led to the adoption of similar legislation is some other very 
Christian countries, such as Ireland and the Philippines.  The clear 
success even led to its partial emulation in some countries which 
were not very Christian.  China, for example, extended its "one 
child" policy to include immediate castration of any male who 
fathered a second child.  A Russian law to require the castration of 
any male convicted of a violent crime was so successful in reducing 
the crime rate that it was later amended to require castration for 
any crime which resulted in a prison sentence longer than six months 
and all offenses resulting in a sentence to any juvenile detention 
facility. 



	That the population of the Christian United States had 
multiplied by more than six times in less than two generations 
provided unexpected beneÞts to the people.  Previously, too many 
people had been consumed by the search for material possessions.  Now 
the entire population lived at a much simpler level and their focus 
was on God, rather than on Mammon.  There was adequate food for all, 
but simple, nutritious foods, rather than rich luxuries.  There was 
housing for all, but it was simple and adequate.  Privacy had largely 
disappeared and people were much more aware of their neighbors 
actions and needs.  Everyone focused on spiritual, rather than 
material wealth.  America had become far more Christian.  



	Since some of the first sons would not have children and some 
of them would have only girls, the total population would, of course, 
gradually decline to under one billion within only a few centuries.  
The Christian United States clearly demonstrated that it was possible 
to achieve population stability through purely Christian means.