The Story: A new revision of the King James Bible---dubbed the Queen James Bible---edits
out all references to homosexuality in order to provide a Bible
translation "edited to prevent homophobic misinterpretation of God's
Word."
The Background:
The unnamed editors of the revision say they chose to use and retitle
the King James Version to the Queen James Version because of the
"obvious gay link to King James, known amongst friends and courtiers as
'Queen James' because of his many gay lovers."
The website for the "big, fabulous Bible" claims that homosexuality
was first mentioned in the Bible in 1946 in the Revised Standard
Version:
There is no mention of or reference to homosexuality in any Bible prior to this---only interpretations have been made. Anti-LGBT Bible interpretations commonly cite only eight verses in the Bible that they interpret to mean homosexuality is a sin; Eight verses in a book of thousands!
Ironically, the site explains that they didn't completely remove the
offending verses because, "Revelation says not to 'edit the book,' and
people often extend that to mean the entire Bible, not just the book of
Revelation." The editors then go on to say, "We edited the Bible to
prevent homophobic interpretations. We made changes to eight verses."
An example of one of their edits is Romans 1:27. Here is the verse in the KJV:
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.
And here is the new QJV translation: Continue at Joe Carter
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