The Life and Times of Joe Suttle

This one is against two Bible publishers, and is being brought by a man who happens to be homosexual. He is representing himself, and claims that their interpretation of I Cor. 6.9 has caused him great damage. You can read about his lawsuit HERE.

Seems strange that this will make it to court. Some lawyer will hear about it, and make it a class action lawsuit that will include everyone who has had sex outside of marriage, those who worship any kind of idol or who have committed adultery. Oh my! What a way to deal with out guilt. Blame it on the Bible interpreters. "They make me feel guilty, and have damaged me."

This will have to go down in history as one of those court cases that eat up the government's and the company's money – and all for no reason other that someone's feelings got hurt. Why doesn't that man go study greek, read the words in the oldest manuscripts, and then make his case?

Oh, by the way, the list of "bad people" continues in verse 10, and leaves very few people in the world untouched. Maybe we should join the bandwagon. Wonder how Mr. Suer (the person doing the suing) would feel about using his logic to excuse the way people live their lives – after all, isn't that what he is asking for?

Something we all participate in, but many refuse to believe that it exists. Yet, the protestors fail to realize that what allows them to protest is “freedom”.

Nowadays, we don’t hear much about “repression” and “slavery”, and is seems that when we do, it is usually the past acts of “some people”. People lose their freedoms everyday – some at the hands or practices of others, or just based on what they do themselves.

Some of the lost freedoms remind me of kids complaining about how their parents or teachers “punished” them by not letting them participate in something. Too bad that they did not get the message that if they had done the right thing, they would not be punished.

It seems that we are trained well in how to blame others for what happens to us. Kind of reminds me of the guy who rolled his car off the side of the road (while being pursued at high speed by the Highway Patrol), and then wanted to sue the County for not maintaining the road! It was like he contributed nothing to the accident – speed, alcohol or recklessness.

My life is under my control (unless someone else drugs me), and therefore what I do is what I do. Doing the right thing is not always easy, but all we have to do it stop and think a minute. Take time to see the light shining on the path you should take. Or…I could stumble around in the prison of darkness.