Do I even need to comment on this?
By jimrob | July 9, 2008
A homosexual man who has a blog on Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign website is suing two major Christian publishers for violating his constitutional rights and causing emotional pain, because the Bible versions they publish refer to homosexuality as a sin.
Bradley LaShawn Fowler, 39, of Canton, Mich., is seeking $60 million from Zondervan and another $10 million from Thomas Nelson Publishing in lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Grand Rapids Press reported.
Fowler filed his claim against Grand Rapids-based Zondervan Monday, alleging its Bibles’ references to homosexuality as a sin have made him an outcast from his family and contributed to physical discomfort and periods of “demoralization, chaos and bewilderment,” the paper said.
He filed suit against Tennessee publisher Thomas Nelson in June.
Zondervan says that even if Fowler’s claim is credible, he’s suing the wrong party. A company spokesman told WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids that Zondervan doesn’t translate the Bible or own the copyright for any of the translations but relies, instead, on the “scholarly judgment of credible translation committees.”
U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused Monday to appoint an attorney to represent Fowler in the Thomas Nelson case, saying the court “has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims.”
Okay. Let’s ignore the first amendment. Let’s ignore years of religious precedent, which clearly defines homosexuality as being a sin. Let’s ignore religious freedoms in America. Let’s ignore the countless homosexual-published works that label Christians as bigots and intolerant neanderthals. Even then this still doesn’t make sense. Nice to see a judge exercising common sense in this day and age.
Maybe we need something like our anti-God, socialist friends to the North. A good ol’ government committee to seek out and destroy those horrible Christian men that seek to better the world. Who do they think they are, eh?
Sheesh.
Topics: Homosexuality |
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