The publisher of a new “gay-friendly” Bible has admitted to “editing” key phrases in Scripture that condemn homosexuality in order to make them less “homophobic.”
LifeSiteNews.com is reporting that the Bible, known as the Queen James Bible, was the mastermind of an Episcopal priest named Rev. J. Pearson of San Francisco’s Holy Innocents Episcopal church. In the new version, called the Queen James Version (QJV), eight key passages that condemn homosexual relations were modified.
For example, in the King James Version (KJV) Leviticus 18:22 reads, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.” The QJV version now reads Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind in the temple of Molech: it is an abomination.”
In Romans 1:27, the KJV reads: “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”
This verse has been changed in the QJV to read: “Men with men working that which is pagan and unseemly. For this cause God gave the idolators up unto vile affections, receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”
The editors explain in a statement that they changed each of the eight Bible verses traditionally used to argue that homosexuality is sinful, and edited them “in a way that makes homophobic interpretations impossible.”
They believe this new translation will “resolve interpretive ambiguity in the Bible as it pertains to homosexuality.”
Even after editing the bible to suit their tastes, the editors say “the Bible is still filled with inequality and even contradiction that we have not addressed. No Bible is perfect, including this one.”
The new bible was named the Queen James Bible because of a theory that King James, the British king who commissioned the famous translation of the Bible, was bisexual.
While the “homophobic” passages have been altered, the editors say that “the Bible is still filled with inequality and even contradiction that we have not addressed. No Bible is perfect, including this one.”
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