(Tim) Zondervan is the publishing company that has licensed, printed, taken to market, and aggressively promoted Today's New International Version, a bowdlerized form of Scripture in which the original Greek and Hebrew has been amended in order to appease and mollify feminists. The TNIV is popular among the hipsters leading the Submergent church.
It's somewhat ironic then that Zondervan was just hit with a lawsuit filed by a man who is a sodomite and claims Zondervan's Bibles' treatment of sodomy has caused him great emotional injury. The lawsuit isn't likely to get far at this early date, but it led Zondervan to issue a press release defending their Bibles as follows:
We rely on the scholarly judgment of the highly respected and credible translation committees behind each translation and never alter the text of the translations we are licensed to publish. We only publish credible translations produced by credible Biblical scholars.
"Highly respected" indeed. Their heavy use of 'credible' is telling, isn't it?
