'Divinely Inspired' Gay Bible Angers Christian Groups
Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Some Christian groups have expressed outrage over a new version of the Bible in which the higher power says that it is better to be gay than straight.
A more traditional version of the Bible.
Revision Studios, a motion picture company based in New Mexico, is behind the new version of the Bible. It is calling the work the “Princess Diana Bible” because of the charitable work performed by the late Princess Diana.
The new version of the Bible will not be available until 2009, but certain sections of the work have been leaked to the press already. These include a Genesis creation story in which God creates two women, Aida and Eve.
The Guardian reports that the Genesis story reads: "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 is the brainchild of film producer and director Max Mitchell. Mitchell is perhaps best known for his gay horror film Horror in the Wind, in which a bioengineering accident causes the world’s population to reverse their sexual orientation, leading to bans on heterosexual marriage. Mitchell claims that he was inspired to create the Princess Diana Bible after making the film.
Not surprisingly there are people in the religious community who are unhappy with the project. Many called it sacrilegious. Others accused Mitchell of attempting to twist the “true” Bible to his own political aims. Douglas Howe, writer of the Idol Chatter blog on religion and pop culture at BeliefNet, said the Princess Diana Bible was "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, however, claims that he was “divinely inspired” to create his pro-gay Bible, despite the fact that no religion or organization besides his own has endorsed it. After the book is released he plans to produce a two part miniseries based on the work.
A more traditional version of the Bible.
Revision Studios, a motion picture company based in New Mexico, is behind the new version of the Bible. It is calling the work the “Princess Diana Bible” because of the charitable work performed by the late Princess Diana.
The new version of the Bible will not be available until 2009, but certain sections of the work have been leaked to the press already. These include a Genesis creation story in which God creates two women, Aida and Eve.
The Guardian reports that the Genesis story reads: "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 is the brainchild of film producer and director Max Mitchell. Mitchell is perhaps best known for his gay horror film Horror in the Wind, in which a bioengineering accident causes the world’s population to reverse their sexual orientation, leading to bans on heterosexual marriage. Mitchell claims that he was inspired to create the Princess Diana Bible after making the film.
Not surprisingly there are people in the religious community who are unhappy with the project. Many called it sacrilegious. Others accused Mitchell of attempting to twist the “true” Bible to his own political aims. Douglas Howe, writer of the Idol Chatter blog on religion and pop culture at BeliefNet, said the Princess Diana Bible was "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, however, claims that he was “divinely inspired” to create his pro-gay Bible, despite the fact that no religion or organization besides his own has endorsed it. After the book is released he plans to produce a two part miniseries based on the work.
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