REVrant 39.1 - Zondervan faces $60M federal lawsuit over Bible, homosexuality

Grand Rapids news - Zondervan faces $60M federal lawsuit over Bible, homosexuality.

If you don’t have time to read the link, the short story is that a guy named Bradley Fowler is suing Zondervan - a Christian publisher – because he claims that their translation of the biblical word – “homosexual” in I Corinthians 6:9 has caused him suffering.  His family’s pastor used that Zondervan Bible and because of it, his family “considered him a sinner and he suffered.”  He is asking for an apology and $60 million.  Why?  “20 years of emotional duress and mental instability,” according to Fowler.

Zondervan is passing the buck to the translators.  Fowler needs to sue the translators, says Zondervan, because the publishers simply rely on the “scholarly judgment of credible translation committees.”

A while back, I read about an “emergent” writer who made the comment that perhaps “we should declare a five year moratorium on saying anything about homosexuality until we figure out what the Bible really says about it!”  Perhaps this lawsuit makes sense to him?  NOT to me!

I suppose we should anticipate actions like this.  People have been trying to justify sinful behaviors since the beginning of time.  Remember Adam blaming Eve in Eden?

Mr. Fowler needs to read Romans 1:24–27 – “Therefore God gave the over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.  They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised.  Amen.  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.  Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.  Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.”     

Lawsuit or not, this is the Word of the Lord!

Comments

[Sandy]

UNBELIEVABLE!! Nothing surprises me anymore. This man is attempting to justify his sin in an outrageous way!!

[Anna Thorne]

This guy admits straight out that he has suffered 20 years of mental instability, and they are still going to let him sue a human company for a God-given word? Seriously!!

[Baylor Bear]

MHR,
Your post is quite interesting yet unsurprising. I am sad for him that he feels this will be a "just" action for what took place in the past. The financial motives and anger of the man are apparent. I read things in books that offend me and that I disagree with all of the time, yet I simply choose to disregard them. Sometimes when people disgree with me (and I with them) I can choose to disregard them. I know that things are not that simple with this man and his family and how they confronted him about his sexual behavior, but he could just simply say "they were wrong and I don't care what the Bible says." It has never crossed my mind to sue for $60 million. Perhaps I should think about a new strategy.

The assault on the Bible is apparent as well. My guess is that there are not many people concerned with changing the "wording" of the Quran or Joseph Smith's prophecies or Confucius' philosophies. I may be incorrect, I don't know what the Quoran says about sex and marriage. Americans don't like what the Bible has to say though and don't seem to understand that the Bible is not just another book.