Yet another example of how religion thinks it can dictate how people live without any regard to the individual, diversity, even HUMANITY. I hope they keep this bigotry in the name of Jesus up, it just motivates even more people to leave the church.

Hm. Back in the 1970s I recall that Wycliffe Bible Translators was the evangelical outfit whose goal was to make sure that every indigneous language on earth had a translation of at least the gospels, if not the new testament, if not the entire Bible. They in fact believed this would usher in the second coming.

The ABS on the other hand with its paraphrased / vernacular translation, The Good News Bible and the lesser-known Contemporary English Version was never taken seriously by us, and was considered "too liberal". In addition, those translations never seemed to get much traction with believers.

So I'm in a way not surprised there was an evangelical takeover of this organization (or they capitulated to evangelical influences, or whatever it was exactly that happened).

Why atheists has to show interest in whatever happens in the american bible society?

excuse me, what is an American Bible ? St James is the only Authorised version, unless your a Catholic, then you put people to death until they agree

Why would anyone LGBTQ or cohabiting with someone even WANT to distribute that claptrap??!