A gay man has sued Zondervan

A gay man has sued Zondervan and
Thomas Nelson, two Christian publishing
houses, for putting out Bible translations
that refer to homosexuality as a sin. The
man claims that these Bible versions have
caused his family to ostracize him and
caused him significant “demoralization,
chaos and bewilderment.”
The man charged in his lawsuit that
Thomas Nelson “willfully caused me to endure
acts of hate, discrimination, and loss of sleep,
appetite, by structuring their New King James
Bible to reflect God’s distaste of homosexuals.”
“By designing this product to promote
hate and violence toward homosexuality,
because such product is promoted as being
the ‘authentic word of God, ’ it is a design
defect,” he wrote.
Of negative references to homosexuality in
Zondervan’s New International Version he
wrote, “This obvious coerced method of mind
control and social dictatorship violates the religious
[sacred] laws which prevent anyone
from adding to the Biblical scriptures or from
taking any words away from the text.”
The man is seeking $60 million in damages
from Zondervan and $10 million from Thomas
Nelson.