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Bradley Fowler (RightPundits.com)
A homosexual man who has a blog on Sen. Barack Obama's campaign website is suing two major Christian publishers for violating his constitutional rights and causing emotional pain, because the Bible versions they publish refer to homosexuality as a sin.

Bradley LaShawn Fowler, 39, of Canton, Mich., is seeking $60 million from Zondervan and another $10 million from Thomas Nelson Publishing in lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Grand Rapids Press reported.

Fowler filed his claim against Grand Rapids-based Zondervan Monday, alleging its Bibles' references 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 paper said.

He filed suit against Tennessee publisher Thomas Nelson in June.

Zondervan says that even if Fowler's claim is credible, he's suing the wrong party. A company spokesman told WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids that Zondervan doesn't translate the Bible or own the copyright for any of the translations but relies, instead, on the "scholarly judgment of credible translation committees."

U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused Monday to appoint an attorney to represent Fowler in the Thomas Nelson case, saying the court "has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims."

Fowler, who is representing himself in both lawsuits, says in his complaint against Zondervan that the publisher intended 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 alleges both Zondervan and Thomas Nelson, with its King James Bible, manipulated Scripture without informing the public by using the term "homosexuals" in a New Testament passage, 1 Corinthians 6:9.

He told the Grand Rapids TV station in an interview he wants to "compensate for the past 20 years of emotional duress and mental instability."

Zondervan, he contended, is misinterpreting the Bible.

"These are opinions based on the publishers," Fowler said. "And they are being embedded in the religious structure as a way of life."

'Astounding research'

Fowler's blog on Sen. Barack Obama's campaign website features a post titled "Unleashing America from Injustice," in which he says he "was completely distraught after discovering the term-homosexual-was added to the bible, in 1976, and then removed, in 2001 and 2006, without any consideration to the many victims who committed suicide or were murdered because of their sexual preference of homosexuality."


Bradley Fowler's blog on Obama's campaign site

The Obama campaign notes the opinions expressed in its community blog section "in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign."

On a separate personal blogsite, Fowler features his related book, written under the name "Bradley-Almighty," which, he boasts, contains "astounding research from within the pages of the bible, that will change the face of religion across the globe."

Titled "365 Reason's to Study the Bible," he says his "debut book" takes the reader "on a journey through time, as he shifts swiftly, yet gracefully, through the pages of religious history, slowly exposing hidden secrets bible publishers have fought- feverishly to keep hidden from the general public for centuries. An avalanche of secrets that are keeping millions around the world enslaved today."

Fowler cites his interview with a newspaper called Michigan Front Page in which he said, "Lack of sincerity from bible readers has helped this conspiracy go on this long."

'Engrossed' with Scripture

On his personal blog's "About Me" page, Fowler says that while serving a sentence in the Michigan Department of Corrections, he "gained a sincere interest" in the Bible's teachings and, over a 10 year period, "became so engrossed within" the Scriptures, he couldn't do much more than eat and sleep.

In the rambling piece, he says "everything inside of me suddenly became consumed and overwhelmed by something greater than me ... that's when I found God."

Then, in an apparent reference to the complaint in his lawsuit, he says, "Discovering how much the bible has been changed through man's desicions and incorrect interpretations was hard to accept."

His discovery, he says, "proves we all have been strung along, foolishly, lost in the essence of our minds."

Fowler concludes with a description of himself as a "small business owner, part-time college student, member of the Christian Writer's Guild, freelance writer for the Michigan Front Page, and author of two new books."

Fowler, notes a post by JoAnne Thomas on RightPundits.com, explained his complaint on his blog. He writes:

In 1970, I Corinthians 6:9 read as followed-

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulteres, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effiminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.

In 1982 ,the same scripture read like this-

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodimites.

In 2001 the same scripture reads like this-

Surely you know that the people who do wrong will not inherit God’s kingdom. Do not be fooled, those who sin sexually, worship idols, take part in adultery, those who are male prostitutes, or men who have sexual relations with other men, those who steal, are greedy, get drunk, lie about others, or rob thses people will not inherit God’s kingdom.

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They may pay but so will he...Bradley Fowler will come a cropper.

Oh come on.

Can people sue because the Scriptures say lying is a sin? Or how bout all those fornicators and adulterers. Where do you draw the line.

If the man has a guilty conscience because of a Book, perhaps he should look within. If you don't believe the book then why would it cause an guilty conscience?

Why doesn't he sue other publishers for encouraging him that his lifestyle is legal...wouldn't they be the appropriate party if he is now having remorse and feels bad about himself?

The State

vs.

satan and his angels!

Everyone wants to sue God and not the perpetrator of the problem!

what a joke and if this fool gets away with this he will leave a door open for many homosexuals and gays to do the same thing


i am going to track his blog tonight and i will leave something for this fool

it goes to show you how far a fool will go to cover his own sin and keep living a lie thinking he can do what he wants and come judgment day this fool is going to have to answer to god alone


you cant expect to take the publishers to court and make a stupid claim saying it has caused me hard ship and grief

oh what a baby my family does not want nothing to do with me he is depressed

he decided to live this life style and he knows what happens when you decide to live this life style



i have no sympathy for fools like this if he was living in iran and came out openly saying he is a homosexual he would be hung or killed

and i hope no one hear on this forum feels sorry for this clown


i hope the judge comes down hard on him he is representing him self



god bless from damo

That's a cheeky fellow! Why doesn't he just ignore the parts he doesn't like? This technique has worked for so many!

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John

yeh i know what you mean



one of our church members has been living with a local aborigonal tribe and he is a translater my friend and the team that has been working hard has just published and produced a bible to the tribe he has gotten to know

the new bible is written in ther language it took hard work and effort

my friend david said it took 4 years just to get luke translated in their language he had to go over notes that where left for him and listen to sevral tapes also that where left for him

my friend david has also learnt their language and the elders taught him how to read and how to write in their language

they have the new testament only in their language and know for the new project david and his team are starting work on the old testament

david preaches in their language and he leads and equips the young men and old men who have given their hearts to the lord

david said that the aborigonal people know that homosexuality is wrong and he has preached from the old testament

The aborigonal people have there own language thou a lot of them cant speak there parents language due to what happend in the past


the aborigonal people where forced to pick this `language up and where not allowed to follow their customs or even teach their kids the old language


in most communitys today the aborigonal people speak the brokken english

and when i heard that the tribe david has been working with and living with have there own bible written in their own language i thanked the lord for what david and the team and the publishers have done


oh this is know being talked about in our churches hear in australia and we are watching this in intrest to see how it develops


God bless from damo

Hmmm, is this the same guy? A Michigan OFFENDER?

http://www.state.mi.us/mdoc/asp/otis2profi...ocNumber=184830

Hmmmm...I don't know- that's an interesting question.

What jumps out at me in this story, is that he is attempting to make the Bible illegal.

I guess he, and others, have not understood the Gospel message that Jesus bore our sins and delivered us from them at the cross- including homosexuality, fornication,
and all of the corruption we walk in- in our old natures.

Maybe, he personally, is under conviction as the Lord works on his heart...so we should keep this man in prayer...as he may be a brother....

We have become a sue happy society that thrives on making the other guy pay for the sins we commit against God and ourselves. Perhaps we use suits as a denail mechanism in the hopes that we don't have to become accountable for our own actions? Kind of like the blame game recounted in Genesis: Adam blamed the woman....Eve blamed the serpent....and the serpent had the audasity to try to pass the blame off on God.

Gods Blessings,

Al

Father,

In the precious name of Jesus, deliver this man from this perverse spirit
in the name of Jesus Christ. Father in doing this please deliver all that
have contact with this man and take up his defense. Protect him from harm,
yet loose him from the hand of the enemy to be a clown for the jester
court of the adversary.

The Lord rebuke you satan. You are defeated. May all those that are bound
by unclean spirits be set free according to their heart's cry, and may the
the others perish in your fire.

May his life be turned around for a testimony, in Jesus name.

Amen

AMEN!

Please read the United Nations website www.un.org and read the Declaration of Human Rights Article 18:

Article 18.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

what this fool is doing is wrong i am from Australia and why should i alow the gay community to have their way to where they dictate to us and tell us how we can live and what we can teach to our kids

what this fool is doing is wrong

he knows what the world thinks when it comes to his life style why should the public have to hear why he has suffered no one put a gun to his head and said this is the life style you are to live


he is just as what Adeleine said we have become a sue happy society


he should be ashamed off him self for taking the publishers to court instead he should use his head and talk to a counslier or a pastor and seek forgivness before its too late

the time we have on this earth is short


if he does not turn from the life style he is living and repent i have no sympathy for him he wil face god come judgment day

so do you think what happend in sodom and gomorah should not have happend where god destroyed not just the homosexuals but the two citys ?

the bible warns us very clear to what wil happen


you might have the human of declerations but come judment day is the human of declerations going to prottect you from god ?


i am praying that aids kills this man as this is what happens when you choose to live this life style

i have a good mate who is a bible translator i dont want to see the hard work he does going down the toilet just because one gay man cant accept what the bible has to say and has to use the bible as an excuse for all his problems he has faced while living this life style

he is not stupid and i feel he would have been well warned so what he has had a hard time poor baby


you have kids suffering in third world countrys you have pervets flying into my partners country paying pimps to sleep with young kids you have pedophiles trolling chat sites


and you want to remind us of what the decleration has to say we have our own decleration in Australia



God bless from damo