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If you go and purchase a book, you are initiating the 'relationship'. And if you believe in what the author is saying, you consent. If you don't believe it, you discount the author.
Plain and simple. That's what makes our country great...free speech. No one FORCED the purchase of the book.
And when it comes to choice of clergy...it's just that...choice. Anyone can 'fire' their clergy if they disagree. They also don't have to shop at Walmart. They don't have to buy a Ford. If they choose to continue to go to worship at the place where they disagree w/ the preacher/pastor they are consenting!
...Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Michigan, does not like the fact that the Bibles produced by Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Publishers both accurately convey God's prohibition against homosexual behavior. So he is suing in federal court, seeking $10 million from Thomas Nelson and $60 million from Zondervan.
Read the rest of the article: 'Bible' lawsuit may be sign of things to come (OneNewsNow.com) (http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=191460 - broken link)
How do you know the Bible does accurately convey God's opinion on homosexual behaviour? How do you know it hasn't been screwed around with before by the hand of man? The prohibition of homosexuality is one of the more illogical rules in the Bible as it does not hurt anyone just so long as it is between consenting adults so I don't see why this might not be the case. I'm not saying Mr. Fowler is right to assume however I also don't think it's right to assume that everything in the Bible is how it was originally set out either.
Hoos,
We are a "sue" happy nation. This will not change. Funny thing, my husband is in a dispute with our cable/phone/internet provider (hence, I'm on dial-up). They did not provide the service for the amount of cha-ching that they said they would and our bill was astronomical. Last week, dear hubby went down, check in hand, to resolve the issue. They sent him home with a print-out of what (in great detail and purely uncomprehensable to the common man) they were charging us. I pulled out the calculator and my fine-toothed comb and gave it the once-over. I sat down with my DH and explained to him as best as I could what the whole bunch of hoopla was and suggested that he take the advertised price (which I had a copy of) and the bill and go back down. He wanted ME to get on the phone with the commisioner's office and whoever else would listen and take care of these rotten scoundrels. Well, I very calmly explained to my husband that I did not have the time, nor the desire to do that. THAT was of this world and it was not worth the time or energy that I would have to give it.
My point is, if I even have one, that sometimes we spend too much of our God-given time and talent worrying about things of THIS world that are not ours to worry about. The cable companies will always be here and they will always be ripping the consumer off. Same goes for the phone companies and all the "sue" happy lawyers. I have 5 beautiful children to worry about. God has given them to me for just a time. It is my responsibility to teach them right from wrong and hope that they choose "right".
I posted in another thread regarding this before I discovered this one so I'll just repost what I originally said:
How do you know the Bible does accurately convey God's opinion on homosexual behaviour? How do you know it hasn't been screwed around with before by the hand of man? The prohibition of homosexuality is one of the more illogical rules in the Bible as it does not hurt anyone just so long as it is between consenting adults so I don't see why this might not be the case. I'm not saying Mr. Fowler is right to assume and I think it's a stupid thing to sue over however I also don't think it's right to assume that everything in the Bible is how it was originally set out either.
How do you know the Bible does accurately convey God's opinion on homosexual behaviour? How do you know it hasn't been screwed around with before by the hand of man? The prohibition of homosexuality is one of the more illogical rules in the Bible as it does not hurt anyone just so long as it is between consenting adults so I don't see why this might not be the case. I'm not saying Mr. Fowler is right to assume however I also don't think it's right to assume that everything in the Bible is how it was originally set out either.
We know it's true because it has been preserved for thousands of years with the same words and message.
Why is the prohibition of homosexuality an illogical rule in the Bible? You and I are only human and did not write the Bible, so how could either of us say what is illogical when we are not the author?
We know it's true because it has been preserved for thousands of years with the same words and message.
Why is the prohibition of homosexuality an illogical rule in the Bible? You and I are only human and did not write the Bible, so how could either of us say what is illogical when we are not the author?
The Bible was written by men. Perhaps they were inspired by God, perhaps they were not, however, they were the ones who put the pen to the... papyrus?
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Homosexuals trying to rewrite the Bible
Heterosexuals do this all the time.
