You have got to be kidding me.
Posted on 07/10/2008 7:54:41 AM PDT by XR7
A Michigan man is suing Zondervan Publishing and Thomas Nelson Publishing, claiming biblical references to homosexuality as a sin violate his constitutional rights and have caused him emotional pain and mental instability.Bradley LaShawn Fowler, 39, is seeking $60 million from Zondervan and $10 million from Thomas Nelson, The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press reported. He is representing himself in both claims.
Fowler claims the Bible has made him an outcast and contributed to physical discomfort and periods of "demoralization, chaos and bewilderment."
"As frivolous as this case may sound, it's an indicator of where the homosexual agenda is headed," said Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action. "Ten years from now, this type of case won't be humorous at all; we'll see organizations like the ACLU dedicating resources to them because such 'language' will no longer be considered protected speech.
"Sweden, Canada and the U.K. are already prosecuting religious speech as 'hate' speech, as it relates to the biblical view of homosexuality."
Yes.
That mean ol' nasty Bible did it!
I’d like to point this fag towards an OT verse or two.....
If he thinks this makes him feel bad, wait until he sees what eternity has in store for him (if he doesn’t repent and change).
When is he going to start complaining about the Koran?
He better sue God in Heaven and see how far that get him.
good question!
You beat me to it. Better sue God. But as Job pointed out, good luck getting Him into court.
When is he going to start complaining about the Koran?
From what I have read, the Koran is OK with sodomy. Koran = devil’s answer to the bible.
and the ratchet of the liberal/homo agenda tightens.....
Ya think?
Reminds me of the old joke about a lawsuit between God and the Satan. Satan won... he had all the lawyers...
Sorry, but I pissed myself laughing reading this news item. What’s next? A man sueing Marvel Comics after discovering painfully that people can’t fly like Superman can? Or another person sueing Everyman’s Library after reading Gogol’s story about a man’s nose falling off and going to lead a life of its own - so that he became fearful that it might happen to him too? Or a viewer of ‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers’ sueing Philip Kaufman because he became mortally afraid of pea pods?
On a more serious note: there might be speculative reasons why homosexuality is condemned in the Bible. There were no doctors around then as we have them now, nor hospitals, and no organised health care. The factual act of male homosexuality (anal sex) brings with it a hugely increased risk for STD erm... dissemination (sic), because it is, compared to man-woman sex, a rather rough activity, where contact between sperm and blood is almost par for the course, so the speak. Men can have dozens of tiny wounds in their colon, so another’s infected sperm can thus very easily infect the one being penetrated.
If this conjecture is right, then, in the days the Bible was written, the condemning of homosexuality might simply be explained as a health care rule to prevent a tribe being exterminated.
I realize that I spoke rather frankly here, in open terminology. But I weighed that against the importance of the issue at hand, and decided to write it anyway.
It may turn out that instead of God coming down to his court, He will summon this man up to His Heavenly tribunal first.
Any judge that doesn’t summarily toss a suit like this should be impeached for not upholding the 1st amendment.
Right! The Koran (and Sharia law) does not offend homos...it calls for their heads to be removed from their shoulders. That is not offensive to me.
Don’t read the bible then, homo.
He really should sue Zondervan for publishing Rick Warren’s books.
Thanks for the biology lesson.
This is a purely political move. Bradley and his feelings are inconsequential to the “gay” movement. It is only one of many toes being dipped into the legal and societal water. Eventually, they’ll find the temperature to be just right, and the frogs will have to rise up or be the Tuesday lunch special.
Koran’s view on homosexuality...
Probably the only thing I agree with with that religion of ‘peace.’
You’re welcome -
perhaps you already knew all of it. But many folks don’t, esp. about the risks and the ignorance when it comes to tiny wounds in the intestines, and the dangers that they represent.
Apart from that, I wanted to point out that the negative stance to homosexuality in old religious books might not at all be a ‘command by a revengeful and angry God’, but sort of a warning that makes eminent sense.
Cheers, A13.
You CANNOT make this stuff up! Let's see him sue GOD!
You have got to be kidding me.
“Don’t read the bible then, homo”.
...LMAO! My thoughts exactly!
Let me get this straight...you’re advocating that the penalty for homosexuality should be execution?
Does this mean I can sue atheist organizations for disagreeing with me about the existence of God?
I mean, do we as a society really think it is wise to go down this rabbit hole?
WTF?! The Bible says what it says. This is a blatant attack on the ability to express opinions. If someone can challenge the Bible, they can challenge any written speech regardless of the context and regardless of the intent. This is pure insanity. HIS Constitutional rights are being violated? He’s violating these publishers’ rights with this crazy attack. I can’t believe the left has fallen this far. Does anyone know how well he is being supported?
U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused to appoint an attorney to represent him in his case against Thomas Nelson, a Tennessee publisher. (Fowler filed a suit against Thomas Nelson in June. He is representing himself in both claims.)A judge with a functioning brain, put him on the short list for SCOTUS ;-)"The Court has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims," the judge wrote.
The Supreme Court of the Universe——God HIMSELF-—has already made the ruling on this. He alone has the final say.
I think the word “abomination” means what it says. God has a way with His words.
Looking for a big pay day, eh, Fowler?
Suggest if Fowler doesn’t like the Bible references, he doesn’t read them.
Next he’ll be suing the publishers of the Koran.
That guy made himself an “outcast”, not the Bible or the publisher. We should never feel guilty for what someone elses decides to do with their life. Of course they would like us to feel guilty but it ain’t happen here.
I don’t recall the US Constitution guaranteeing anybody the “Right To Never Be Offended”, but I seem to recall something about speech and the press . . . now what was it . . . :p
(Inside joke to those who know I have that part memorized.)
Sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. When do christian organizations start getting to sue homosexual activist groups for moral derangement?
When I read the headline, I thought this might have occurred in Canada or Europe, where the plaintiff might actually be able to prevail, at least for a while.
This case should be thrown out promptly in the U.S., and if the court has any guts, it will award sanctions against the pervert because it is completely frivolous.
I was more tolerant in my younger days, but the constant drumbeat of actions by the gay community attacking one societal norm after another over the last 30 years has me near the end of my compassionate rope.
Personally, I don’t car what gays do in the privacy of their own homes, but don’t shove your gayness down my throat by marching down my street, invading my television, making out in front of me or demanding special rights because of your unnatural and perverted lifestyle.
It’s not the publisher’s fault. Fowler needs to sue the Author.
So much for free press.
Since were living under Grace now let’s look at Romans chapter 1 verse 27
“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.”
“the due penalty’...aids?
Sounds preposterous now, but sooner or later some wacko judge or jury goes along with a similar suit, and the doors are open. Publishers will refuse to publish the Bible, but will not have any qualms about publishing the official book of a certain middle-eastern sect.
There are lots of versions (some much better than others) of bibles out there. If he can find a version that doesn’t discuss sodomy/homosexual behavior as sin, I’d say he should read that one - but I don’t believe it exists.
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