Am I in, like, Utah, or something?

As many of you know, I spent today FUMING (I still am!) at the audacity of a sermon that I heard at church this morning. Basically, the gist of the sermon was along the same old fundamentalist lines of disempowering women, and ignoring all basis for reality by informing us it was our God-given responsibility to have as many children as humanly possible. The same old arguments that those darn Muslims are outpacing us in their birthrates, and if we don't hurry up and make as many babies as they do, they will outnumber us on the planet, oh heaven forbid. The argument that it is our mandate to be fruitful and multiply, ignoring many other mandates that God gave us in that small, often misquoted passage in Genesis. That if a couple chooses to be childless, then they are ignoring and disobeying the command upon their lives and living selfish and self-centred lives.
What particular blew me away were the very humanistic "arguments" given for having children as well: The tax credits (what?? Just the speaker mentioning that made me decide I cannot vote for the Conservatives in the next election (not that I would've anyways), if these are the wingnuts that they are appealing to), the "fact" that we need to have more children in order to help support the baby boomers in their old age (I'm sorry; but if they didn't prepare adequately for retirement, then that's their own problem), the point made that children keep marriages together (I'm sorry, but having a child for the sake of keeping the marriage together is a VERY VERY VERY BAD reason to have a child), the reasoning that you women have to have a lot of children, otherwise men, whose hearts tend to stray, will not have a strong compulsion to head for home (Excuse me? If a husband doesn't want to come home to his wife alone, again, VERY BAD reason to have children).
We were also told that we shouldn't stop at just one or two children, oh no! In "fact", it was the Devil's LIE that the world is overpopulated and that there aren't enough resources on the planet to sustain the, oh 6.5 billion of us on the planet, that we should counteract all evidence to the contrary, and have a gazillion children apiece.
What I found particularly interesting was how the speaker, in another part of his sermon, pointed to Jesus as our example as to why we should do some other thing, not related to this subject that I'm speaking about. I did note, however, how he was silent on Jesus' example on this issue: namely, that He had ZERO children. Obviously, Jesus was not living out His God-given mandate.
I'm pretty sure the women sitting in the pews this morning weren't wearing kerchiefs on their heads and unadorned in jewellery and braided hair, but really, for all intents and purposes, they might have as well been...