Man Sues “Homophobic” Bible for $70,000,000
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 12, 2009 10:25 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Christianity, Litigation, Michigan, Religion, USA
A homosexual is demanding $70,000,000 in damages from Bible publishers for printing a book which dares to condemn homosexuality as a sin.
The man, unsurprisingly an American, claims two Bible publishers “manipulated” their translations from an ambiguous condemnation of “abusers of themselves with mankind” to an explicit condemnation of “homosexuals.”
The King James Version of the bible, to many English-speaking Christians “The Bible,” exerted considerable influence over the English language as a literary masterpiece. However, its admonitions are frequently ambiguous, and its translation politically motivated or disputed.
For example, the King James Version renders a condemnation of sexual deviancy in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 obliquely as:
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind… shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Modern editions tend to favour much less ambiguous wording of the same passage:
New International Version:
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders…
New American Standard Bible:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals….
New King James Version:
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites…
English Standard Version:
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality…
The man claims that the publishers of such Bibles caused him “demoralization, chaos and bewilderment,” by deliberately publishing “homophobic” versions of the Bible, entitling him to huge damages.
One publisher has denounced his claims as “ridiculous,” pointing out that they neither translated nor own the rights to the version they publish.
Most major religious texts take a dim view of homosexuality, so it seems he may have a very long string of lawsuits ahead of him.
Via Carnal Nation.
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as expected from american...
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ill sue you because you sued me!
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Objection!
overruled
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DO IT FAGGOTS!
I'll sue you for using the word faggot.
I'll sue 'em all for being fucking faggots!!!!
I sue you for copyright violation.
Anonymous is clearly copyrighted by me
No, I am Anonymous!
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I'll sue you, X!!
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I sue gays for being gay!!
America Fuck Yeah! i'm sueing you for bashing america btw
I'll sue all of you for suing each other!
This is Epic...
Someone screen cap this!
*screen cap*
America is a great land for lawyers!
*sues the guy who screencaps*
Anon @ 6:56 is right, unfortunately.
I sue you all anons for being anons
"The bomb has been planted."
B, b, b - it's b, someone give me an AWP.
lolololololol *gets sued*
and after all that, i'd like to point out he just might be on to something... if muslims can get santa removed from schools in australia, why not get discriminating text removed from one of the worlds most publicized and debated books...
Santa? What? Why would he be a problem? Doesn't he promote good practices?
Santa's a christian. sue the F*** outta him.
i'll sue anon for samefagging the shit out of this THREAD!
might be nice if it turned into a class action suit.
i'll sue anyone who doesn't continue suing!
Sue H. Yoo
http://failblog.org/2009/09/09/lawyer-name-win/
the suing insues.
I'm ashamed to live in a country where religion is allowed to exist the way it does here in America... Why can't it be more like Japan's religious policies? X-x the Abrahamic religions need to die.
A woman was executed in N. Korea last month for passing out Bibles. Maybe the USA should be more like them? Or maybe you should be grateful that you live in a country that lets you worship rocks, trees, Satan, Jesus, or your friendly neighborhood lolicon if you so desire.
As long as you aren't worshipping a neighborhood loli. That attracts the cops attention whenever they find out about it.
So...move to Japan? America won't miss you. Don't mean that as harsh, just, yeah. Don't expect America to be like a country it's not.
ignorant excuse-seekers need to die
Neighbourhood loli worship? Where do I sign up?
The most likely reason is that Japan has a largely homogeneous culture, while the US is arguably the most culturally diverse country in the history of the world.
The Japanese don't need religion to govern behaviour. Simply recognising that they're Japanese is enough to establish many of the norms and values they're supposed to adopt. Being American, on the other hand, is somewhat more vague with regards to expected behaviour, which is why Americans seem to be more obsessed with categorising and labeling themselves.
Bible thumpers own america. There is not freedom in religion when children are forced to swear allegiance to a god every day while swearing allegiance to the country they live in. I knew a jewish girl who was suspended for not writing something about christmas as an assignment. Because she was not a christian, she got suspended. Oh, and all the anti-gay things I hear every day. Where is my freedom and equality, America? You told me there would be freedom and equality.
True~
Not all americans would make such a...moronic lawsuit,but sadly many still do(as depressing as that is). If I remember correctly, people like the man featured in the article is considered by many to be a "nutjob". But then again, the growing number of such people is growing. >_<
Could it be that he has WAY too much time on his hands?
or too much money, to pursue this case legitimately, i imagine he would spend upwards of 100,000 dollars. he won't win. so being a dumbass is it's own punishment. but, hey the lawyers don't care if it is a losing battle, they still get paid.
I sued everyone here, already >_< haha me wins
The book of Corinthians was written for the LULZ.
Come on! Suing the holy Bible for being jugdemental is like suing Sankaku Complex for being lolikon or suing Encyclopedia Dramatica for being atrocious.
This lawsuit is just plain gay (in the idiotic definition of the word). That’s why the good lord hates FAGGOTS. The Bibble is the catalog of prejudices of humanity and it must remain in that way.
What kind of NAZI would dare to impose a “politically correct” version of the word of god?
It is not the real holy people since the text in the original one is totally different. Stupid translations that include personal thoughts should be eliminated and not being used as bible!
I will sue you all for not being faggots...
Oh wait i have to sue myself for the same ;o
Heh. Even better: Here in germany the catholic church should be closed down according to law.
It's illegal to only employ men (there are no female priests allowed) and it's illegal to tell your employees what they have to do in their free time (the church bans marriage for priests).
This makes the catholic church an organisation hostile to the german constitution and as such illegal. According to law all possessions of the church have to be seized, the higher ups prosecuted and the church closed down.
I wonder when that happens. ^_^
Catholics have Nuns,(women). And priesthood is a calling not a job, besides being 24-7 busy, hence no time off.
Oh, also, no pay and no OT.
Sucks huh?
took the words out of my mouth.