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http://www.tpnn.com/2015/07/10/gay-man-files-70m-suit-against-bible-publishers-over-homosexual-verses/

A homosexual man filed a $70 million lawsuit against Bible publishers alleging that their version of the Bible that refers to homosexuality as a sin violates his constitutional rights and has caused him emotional distress.

 

According to the Christian Post, ex-con turned author Bradley LaShawn Fowler filed a federal law suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Monday, the same day a judge refused to appoint him a lawyer for his suit against Thomas Nelson, The Grand Rapids Press reported. The Judge said:

“The Court has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims.”

Fowler, who is representing himself in both cases, accuses Zondervan of ‘manipulating Scripture’ by using the term “homosexuals” in 1 Corinthians 6:9 of their 1982 and 1987 revised edition Bibles. He also contends that the reference to homosexuality were deleted by the publisher in later versions without informing the public.

He alleges that since the older Kings James Version containing the term “homosexuals” is used by his family pastor, he has been outcast by his family. He told WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids he is:

“suing the Grand Rapids publisher for compensation of 20 years of ’emotional duress and mental instability.'”

In his hand-written suit, 39 year old Fowler makes many claims against Zondervan including malicious negligence, strict liability, malice, libel, and violating his civil rights. He’s seeking $60 million from Zondervan and $10 million from Thomas Nelson Publishing. In June Fowler filed a similar suit against Tennessee-based publisher Thomas Nelson.

Zondervan issued a statement to The Christian Post that said they do not discuss ongoing litigation. The company’s spokesperson Tara Powers, however, pointed out that they only publish Bibles, not translate them. She went on to say:

“Since Zondervan does not translate the Bible or own the copyright for any of the translations we publish, we are not in a position to comment on the merits of how a word should or should not be translated.”

“We rely on the scholarly judgment of the highly respected and credible translation committees behind each translation and never alter the text of the translations we are licensed to publish. We only publish credible translations produced by credible biblical scholars,” she noted.

According to Fowler, Zondervan has 20 days from the day the claim was filed to respond.



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And so it begins.....

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Why does this even rate a news report or allowing a law suit to be filed? What a bunch of nonsense.

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Hopefully it will be thrown out. But these days you never know.

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This is EXACTLY what I've been saying would happen.

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Well, if we can rewrite the Civil War why not the Bible?

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I'm waiting for the homosexual supporters to come out and applaud Fowler. Is he also going to sue publishers of the Qu'ran? I'm pretty sure Islam forbids homosexual acts as well.

I have news for Fowler. God does not change. You can rewrite the Bible all you want but the TRUE Bible is immutable. I do not envy Fowler when he stands before God on Judgment Day.

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I'm waiting for the homosexual supporters to come out and applaud Fowler. Is he also going to sue publishers of the Qu'ran? I'm pretty sure Islam forbids homosexual acts as well.

I have news for Fowler. God does not change. You can rewrite the Bible all you want but the TRUE Bible is immutable. I do not envy Fowler when he stands before God on Judgment Day.


 No, he won't sue them. They have the right to their beliefs. It's only Christians who don't have that right.

I fear this guy will win, with all the liberal judges out there.



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I'm waiting for the homosexual supporters to come out and applaud Fowler. Is he also going to sue publishers of the Qu'ran? I'm pretty sure Islam forbids homosexual acts as well.

I have news for Fowler. God does not change. You can rewrite the Bible all you want but the TRUE Bible is immutable. I do not envy Fowler when he stands before God on Judgment Day.


 No, he won't sue them. They have the right to their beliefs. It's only Christians who don't have that right.

I fear this guy will win, with all the liberal judges out there.


 How could I ever forget that?! Shame on me!

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Oh, ffs...

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Oh, ffs...

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 Exactly what I was thinking.  This kind of thing would NEVER happen, right?



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Oh, ffs...

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 Exactly what I was thinking.  This kind of thing would NEVER happen, right?


Yes, there ARE stupid people out there...they come in all shapes, sizes, colors and sexual orientation.

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Oh, ffs...

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 Exactly what I was thinking.  This kind of thing would NEVER happen, right?


Yes, there ARE stupid people out there...they come in all shapes, sizes, colors and sexual orientation.

flan 


 Don't kid yourself.  This isn't some fringe of the movement.  this is what the movemnet itself wants--to eradicate freedom of religion and greatly erode freedom of speech.  

 

Sure, not everyone who supports gay marriage supports those things--every movement has dupes that the leadership can manipulate in furtherance of their true goals.



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Oh, ffs...

flan


 Exactly what I was thinking.  This kind of thing would NEVER happen, right?


Yes, there ARE stupid people out there...they come in all shapes, sizes, colors and sexual orientation.

flan 


 Don't kid yourself.  This isn't some fringe of the movement.  this is what the movemnet itself wants--to eradicate freedom of religion and greatly erode freedom of speech.  

 

Sure, not everyone who supports gay marriage supports those things--every movement has dupes that the leadership can manipulate in furtherance of their true goals.


 I don't believe that, husker.

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I don't believe that, husker.
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There is a movie on Netflix that's really good. It's not well made but it shows the world way down the road where it's illegal to own a Bible or have a cross hanging. You can't mention God or the Bible or even sing a hymn. You can be arrested for any or all of these things. It's a really good movie. I wish I could remember the name.


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I can say we live in dangerous times. We're rewriting history. Dangerous thing to do as we're damned to repeat it if we ignore it. We're trying to eradicate everything in life these days.

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 Whoa!  Snappy insult.  Not.  Actually pretty lame. 

 

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There is a movie on Netflix that's really good. It's not well made but it shows the world way down the road where it's illegal to own a Bible or have a cross hanging. You can't mention God or the Bible or even sing a hymn. You can be arrested for any or all of these things. It's a really good movie. I wish I could remember the name.


 I've seen it. Can't remember the name either. 

But it is in the Bible too. 

I know Flan and a few others here like to make fun of me for saying these things. But it is true. It will become a crime to believe and profess God.



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Well, since NONE of us has a crystal ball, we'll have to wait and see.

If it was EVER a crime, they'd have to build a LOT more jails.

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You don't need a crystal ball.

Just read the Bible. It's more and more like reading a newspaper now.

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I can say we live in dangerous times. We're rewriting history. Dangerous thing to do as we're damned to repeat it if we ignore it. We're trying to eradicate everything in life these days.


Have you seen the bs about Cracker Barrel? Some idjit is suing them because he's offended over them using the word cracker. Says it's an insult to whites.

What's next on the PC agenda? Criminalizing the words 'man' and 'woman'? Wouldn't want someone getting offended over pronouns! 



-- Edited by chef on Monday 13th of July 2015 01:03:25 PM

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You don't need a crystal ball.

Just read the Bible. It's more and more like reading a newspaper now.


Yes, we all KNOW that you believe every single word in that book.

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I can say we live in dangerous times. We're rewriting history. Dangerous thing to do as we're damned to repeat it if we ignore it. We're trying to eradicate everything in life these days.


Have you seen the bs about Cracker Barrel? Some idjit is suing them because he's offended over them using the word cracker. Says it's an insult to whites.

What's next on the PC agenda? Criminalizing the words 'man' and 'woman'? Wouldn't want someone getting offended over pronouns! 



-- Edited by chef on Monday 13th of July 2015 01:03:25 PM


I firmly believe that there are tons of idjits in this country.

Cracker Barrel is our favorite place for Thanksgiving dinner. I have yet to have a bad experience there.

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I can say we live in dangerous times. We're rewriting history. Dangerous thing to do as we're damned to repeat it if we ignore it. We're trying to eradicate everything in life these days.


Have you seen the bs about Cracker Barrel? Some idjit is suing them because he's offended over them using the word cracker. Says it's an insult to whites.

What's next on the PC agenda? Criminalizing the words 'man' and 'woman'? Wouldn't want someone getting offended over pronouns! 



-- Edited by chef on Monday 13th of July 2015 01:03:25 PM


 I swear if we would start fining people for frivolous lawsuits this shyt would stop.



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chef wrote:
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I can say we live in dangerous times. We're rewriting history. Dangerous thing to do as we're damned to repeat it if we ignore it. We're trying to eradicate everything in life these days.


Have you seen the bs about Cracker Barrel? Some idjit is suing them because he's offended over them using the word cracker. Says it's an insult to whites.

What's next on the PC agenda? Criminalizing the words 'man' and 'woman'? Wouldn't want someone getting offended over pronouns! 



-- Edited by chef on Monday 13th of July 2015 01:03:25 PM


 I've seen it. It comes up every now and then.

 



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flan327 wrote:
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You don't need a crystal ball.

Just read the Bible. It's more and more like reading a newspaper now.


Yes, we all KNOW that you believe every single word in that book.

flan 


 Yes. I do. 

And if we're not so close minded, you would see it too.



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lilyofcourse wrote:
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You don't need a crystal ball.

Just read the Bible. It's more and more like reading a newspaper now.


Yes, we all KNOW that you believe every single word in that book.

flan 


 Yes. I do. 

And if we're not so close minded, you would see it too.


Sweetheart,

You could NOT be more wrong. I attended Catholic school for 8 years. I've been to hundreds of Masses.

I can use the brain that I was given.

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Sweetheart,

You could NOT be more wrong. I attended Catholic school for 8 years. I've been to hundreds of Masses.

I can use the brain that I was given.
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Sweetheart,

You could NOT be more wrong. I attended Catholic school for 8 years. I've been to hundreds of Masses.

I can use the brain that I was given.
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and, lord, let's not forget your first husband was BLACK.........


 And she goes to Amish Meeting...



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Lexxy wrote:
chef wrote:
Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

I can say we live in dangerous times. We're rewriting history. Dangerous thing to do as we're damned to repeat it if we ignore it. We're trying to eradicate everything in life these days.


Have you seen the bs about Cracker Barrel? Some idjit is suing them because he's offended over them using the word cracker. Says it's an insult to whites.

What's next on the PC agenda? Criminalizing the words 'man' and 'woman'? Wouldn't want someone getting offended over pronouns! 



-- Edited by chef on Monday 13th of July 2015 01:03:25 PM


 I swear if we would start fining people for frivolous lawsuits this shyt would stop.


I wish we would. This crap is ridiculous. 



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When they locked up the social democrats,
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I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
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I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

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Quakers are the same as AMISH?

Huh? Who knew?

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You could NOT be more wrong. I attended Catholic school for 8 years. I've been to hundreds of Masses.

I can use the brain that I was given.
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and, lord, let's not forget your first husband was BLACK.........


You are a piece of work...

ANOTHER insult?

When I brought it up, it was RELEVANT to the conversation. 

Go sell a used car...

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No you tried to pretend that because your first husband was black that you could talk for other black men but burns couldn't possibly know what you do because you married a black man...lol

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Sweetheart,

You could NOT be more wrong. I attended Catholic school for 8 years. I've been to hundreds of Masses.

I can use the brain that I was given.
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and, lord, let's not forget your first husband was BLACK.........


 And she goes to Amish Meeting...


 Yeah, it's Quaker, get it right. If you're going to sling mud (or attempt to) at least get your facts straight.



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It was a joke. Get over yourself. Oh and flan seems to be the one slinging mud whenever anyone disagrees with her so go have a chat with her why don't you.

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Oh, ffs...

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 Exactly what I was thinking.  This kind of thing would NEVER happen, right?


Yes, there ARE stupid people out there...they come in all shapes, sizes, colors and sexual orientation.

flan 


 Don't kid yourself.  This isn't some fringe of the movement.  this is what the movemnet itself wants--to eradicate freedom of religion and greatly erode freedom of speech.  

 

Sure, not everyone who supports gay marriage supports those things--every movement has dupes that the leadership can manipulate in furtherance of their true goals.


 I don't believe that, husker.

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I'll have a chat with whomever I please.


 Sure, just as I will. I know you think flan is some kind of goddess but if she's going to dish out the insults she'd better learn to hear them back.



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Vette,

Thanks, but don't bother interacting with her.

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Ahhhh...flan has spoken. You are not to interact with me...lol

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It's funny td how you seem to know exactly what I am thinking...Do tell how you possess such an awesome power?

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I couldn't have possibly just been calling you out on a hopelessly ignorant statement.

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Well this got awfully ugly awfully quickly. Sorry I opened this thread.

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I couldn't have possibly just been calling you out on a hopelessly ignorant statement.


No, because apparently you're my puppet...no

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Well if you were also calling flan out for her ignorant statements then you might have a point. Otherwise just butting in to back flan up because she can't handle it herself.

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