By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A gay version of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight, will be be published in the spring of 2009 by an American film producer.
According to a report by The Guardian, New Mexico-based Revision Studios will publish the new bible, called The Princess Diana Bible, which was named after the late Princess of Wales because of her “many good works.”
The studio’s website provides a preview of the book of Genesis in which God creates Aida and Eve instead of Adam and Eve.
“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Aida, and she slept: and he took one of her ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from woman, made he another woman, and brought her unto the first. And Aida said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of me. Therefore shall a woman leave her mother, and shall cleave unto her wife: and they shall be one flesh.’ And they were both naked, the woman and her wife, and were not ashamed.”
The new bible also claims that Aida and Eve’s male sons, Cain and Abel, were conceived by the serpent.
Revision Studios Writer/Producer/Director Max Mitchell sees nothing wrong with creating his own version of the bible, “There are 116 versions of the bible. I don’t see why we can’t have one.”
Mitchell, who believes there is solid evidence that Adam and Eve were both women, directed a science fiction comedy called Horror in the Wind, in which an airborne formula invented by two biogeneticists reverses the world’s sexual orientation.
“I got the idea for the Princess Diana Bible from Horror In The Wind,” he said. In the movie, “After the world becomes gay, religious people create The Princess Diana Bible, which says that gay is right and straight is a sin. Then they burn all the King James Bibles.”
Mitchell is also planning to produce a two part series based on the new bible, The Gay Old Testament and The Gay New Testament.
The new bible is upsetting the faithful with one Christian blogger named Douglas Howe describing it as “inspired by a political agenda and one person’s desire to contort not only the text but the very context of it to suit his own perspective”.
Mitchell’s site also contains a note of criticism from one commentator who found the choice of title to be “very disrespectful to the late Princess Diana … It’s just one more thing to link her to what many people believe is immoral. Sad, very sad indeed.”
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