A Kickstarter to rewrite the Bible may have good intentions, but it doesn’t help undermine those who use religion to justify their prejudices
It’s pretty clear, these days, why no one can use the Bible’s “Curse of Ham” to justify enslavement of black people, or why it’s in poor taste to ask a woman if she is menstruating even if Leviticus considers her “unclean”. The Bible, as Desmond Tutu explained in the 2007 documentary For the Bible Tells Me So, “is the word of God through the words of human beings speaking in the idiom of their time”.
>"I want to make an inclusive, celebratory space within the text that undoes the implicit sexism, misogyny, heterosexism, hierarchical oppression, slut-shaming, etc. and reconstitutes the feminine, the queer, the outcast, the strange."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/18/queer-bible-kickstarter-campaign-christianity