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.
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