sbcthrowaway

This is of course true. But I share Dabaliga's confusion as to why no one (apparently) should go to an SBC seminary. If you're okay with the consequences of such a choice, why not consider it? Just because the vast majority of posters on this forum wouldn't, that doesn't mean nobody should.

Regular poster here (not a philosopher). I grew up in the SBC. I never heard anyone preach against birth control -- pretty sure everybody used it -- and all the families I knew at church had their babies in the hospital. Not sure what you mean by "parochial views" on the family, but complementarianism was the default viewpoint, if that's what you're getting at. So yes, conservative, but shockingly so? Hardly, unless you have no familiarity with conservatives at all.