A child sex offender who believes giving a DNA sample would condemn him to eternal damnation wants an exemption from inclusion on a national database.
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Chord is a Christian and believed that, if his DNA was taken, he would be given "the mark of the Beast" and damned for eternity ...
This is the problem with individual interpretation of the Bible. How the sex-offender has worked out that the "mark of the Beast" will send him directly to Hell, when his own actions to date will not, I have no idea.
The judge should not fall for this one. He should get an opinion from the largest Christian congregation here (I think it's still the Anglicans at this point, and maybe get a second opinion from us Catholics) as to whether or not this is true, and then tell him, too bad.
Reference: Sex offender invokes 'eternal damnation' fear in DNA fight, Dominion Post, A4, 1 Nov 2010