Zondervan lawsuit filer linked to Obama campaign July 9, 2008
Posted by Paul Edwards in Uncategorized.Tags: Barack Obama, Bradley Fowler, Homosexual, Obama, Zondervan
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The plot thickens related to the homosexual activist who is suing Zondervan for $60M because the word “homosexual” appears in its Bible translations. Barack Obama’s official campaign website has posted Bradley Fowler’s explanation of why he is suing Zondervan under the heading, “Overcoming Religious Injustice Is Not As Easy As the Bible Says.”
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Is the Obama campaign behind suing a religious publisher because it’s translation of the Bible is deemed politically incorrect?
UPDATE: Fowler has filed a separate lawsuit against Thomas Nelson Publishers: http://dockets.justia.com/search?query=Bradley+LaShawn+Fowler&search=Search&stateorcourt=court-miedce&lawsuittype=&documentfilter=allcases&cases=mostrecent&min-day=1&min-month=1&min-year=2004&max-day=9&max-month=7&max-year=2008
UPDATE 2: Jordan Ballor at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids points me to this disclaimer on the Obama Campaign website: “Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign.”
I have a request for comment from the Obama Campaign pending.
Barak Obama is a wicked man and I am disgusted to see how many young Christians are endorsing him. Especially out here in Grand Rapids where rebelling against your parent’s Christianity and following Rob Bell is the latest craze. Maybe Zondervan should think twice about making millions off publishing emergent books which promote a movement which may cause millions of evangelicals to vote for Obama and thus have him gain the presidency. That article was full of logical fallicies, first of all he operates off of guilt by association, by beginning by talking about the famed Matthew Shepherd case. Again, even though there is not a shred of evidence that Christianity was behind his murder, he plays the classic game of leavning the question open ended as to if somehow, somwhere Christian morality motivated the killers to do what they did. The whole basis for homosexual rights, just like the rest of our secular humanist culture, gets its rationale from riding on the coat-tail of the echoes of judeo-Christian values. If man is just an animal acting off of impulses for sex, therefore justifying all kinds of sexual behavior, then why not have the same attitude toward violence? Those men who killed Matthew Shepherd were simply acting off of impulse, and you can’t deny them their human expression can you? Justice, and human dignity can only spring from a Christian worldview, the very thing the homosexual ‘rights’ activist is trying to undermine! Sorry I’m just a little fired up because I just wrote a paper on this topic (which I posted on my blog ;)). …Hey, I like every other man was born with feelings to want to commit adultery against my wife, and ‘I didn’t choose these feelings’. I was also taught that I am just an animal, and the only thing absolute are my feelings and pleasures. So now I am irresistably drawn to commit adultery, and I don’t care if it harms myself, my mistress, my wife, or society. And don’t you dare condemn me for it you superstitious bigots or I will sue you… …What darkened reasoning… Hey wait a minute, this all sounds like Romans 1:18-32!
Thanks Paul for adding the disclaimer as I was about to point out that tying this to Obama was a bit presuming a lot. Kudos to you for that.
From Obama himself, to the vagabond on the street to the president of the United States, to the prostitute on 5th and main. We are all born into a sin condition. That is why Christ came, to become a savior.
The problem as I see with this law suit, is no matter what language you translate from or too, God spoke clearly on this sin from old to new testament. No lawsuit, no idealistic speech, not one debate or re-translation is going to change what God said in the old testament it is an Abomination. This is the one sin that God directly condemned with this label or title. In Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean or any other language…For a man to lie with another man as a woman is an Abomination.
Nothing this lawsuit determines, or this person tries to do is going to change that. Because I will teach my child(ren) that homosexuality is wrong. I will ensure that their relationship with Christ is as strong (or stronger) than mine. I will assure that they will argue with passion and compassion at every point of public debate and discussion including public schools, churches, among all form of media. God’s truth will not come back void. It is an individual’s choice what they decide to believe. But that choice has eternal consequences.
Deuteronomy 30:19 (New International Version)
This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.
Remember hell is real, and you choose where you spend eternity is based upon who your Savior is, and what you did, or did not do with him. Will the Zondervan suit change that simple fact, NO!
This guy is tied to the Obama campaign he same way you and I have ties to WordPress. Any goofball can get a blog at both Obama’ and McCain’s websites.
About the lawsuit, let’s keep some perspective. Anyone anywhere can file a lawsuit against anyone for anything. Most likely this guy’s case will me thrown out for lack of merit or decided early for Zondervan, both on first amendment grounds.
Joe,
The Obama people sure were quick to take down Bradley’s blog in a way WordPress would never do if he had merely posted his position there.
That would indicate a serious disagreement with the man’s posting, now wouldn’t it?
Not necessarily. The fact they allowed him to express such a radical opinion may indicate the campaign’s SYMPATHIES with his position. The fact they took it down is merely a response to the heat they were feeling from World Net Daily and others who were drawing attention to it.
I spoke with Obama’s campaign the day the lawsuit hit the news. A day later the posting was down. Taking it down was a political decision, not an indication they aren’t sympathetic.
“The fact they allowed him to express such a radical opinion may indicate the campaign’s SYMPATHIES with his position.”
Honestly, I don’t think they knew about it until someone brought it to their attention. It takes little effort to create a blog at my.barackobama.com. I went there and created a blog hassle-free in under a minute. I’m ready to put any goofball message I want on there with Barack Obama’s official campaign banner on top. (I won’t because that’s just not the kind of person I am.)
I think the benefit of the doubt regarding Obama is in order here.
Paul,
Stubmled across your blog as a referer back to mine. Subscribed…
I, for one, will defer to presuming by perspective that anything positive might happen. That’s because when I, as a teen ager, first heard of Madeline Murray O’Hare’s attempt to rid schools of publicly lead prayer I assumed the perspective that such a thing would never come to pass, just because this is the United States of America, founded on Christian principles. Preferrably, we can assume that we should seek, through prayer to God and maybe even coupled with some fasting, that the lawyers be guided by God’s wisdom rather than by man’s.