Sued for Printing Bibles – in the USA!

America has a big reputation for people suing for the most bizarre reasons.

This one is right up there and then some. For some strange reason the media seem to be encouraging it…

The Press included two quotes from Fowler’s lawsuit against Zondervan:

Fowler alleges Zondervan’s Bibles referring 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 intent of the publisher was to design a religious, sacred document to reflect an individual opinion or a group’s conclusion to cause “me or anyone who is a homosexual to endure verbal abuse, discrimination, episodes of hate, and physical violence … including murder,” Fowler wrote.

The report also quoted District Court Judge Julian Abele Cook, Jr., who wrote that “[t]he Court has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims.” However, the report did not give any quotes from representatives of either Zondervan or Thomas Nelson.

This one-sided reporting on the part of the Grand Rapids Press might lead one to conclude that the editors there must not see this as a frivolous lawsuit.

You’d never guess that religious freedom was guaranteed by the American constitution.

For some reason this makes me think of Lucyna’s post where protesters call the Pope’s beliefs “right-wing propaganda“.

I guess both cases those opposing Christians in both cases have let their hatred override any sense of proportion or logic. Not that uncommon sadly.