Forging a sacred weapon how the bible became anti gay
Kathy Baldock, author, LGBTQ advocate, and Executive Director of CanyonWalker Connections, is a leading expert on LGBTQ issues in the Merged States, especially dealing with historical and current discrimination faced from the socially conservative Christian church and political sector. Kathy Baldock founded Canyonwalker Connections in as a natural outgrowth of her already-burgeoning ministry of reconciliation between the socially and religiously conservative American community and the LGBT community. A graduate of Rutgers University's College of Engineering, as successfully as an accomplished entrepreneur and small business owner, Baldock had no ties to the LGBT group until when she forged a friendship with a woman who she later found out was a lesbian. Through organic partnership and years of explore, Baldock shifted her control views and saw the immense need for reachable education in this area. More of the specifics of her backstory along with a vibrant and resource-rich website can be found at A video overview of Baldock's education entitled "Unclobbering the Tangled Mess" which follows her book "Walking the Bridgeless Canyon" can be establish on Youtube at An accompanying Discussion
Kathy Baldock
Kathy Baldock (she/her) composer, LGBTQ+ advocate, and founder of Canyonwalker Connections, based in Reno, NV, is a leading expert on the historical and current discrimination against the LGBTQ+ collective, in particular from the socially conservative Christian church and political sectors.
Kathy is one of the main researchers featured in the award winning documentary " The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture." Her next book, "Forging a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Became Anti-Gay" (Spring ), is a historical and contextually-based survey following male-female roles, human sexuality, procreation, and Bible translations, as impacted by cultural, social, medical, political, legal, and military influences from ancient to current times. The book focuses on original research into the reasons the synonyms “homosexual” was included for the first time in the Revised Standard Version NT Bible.
Her first guide, "Walking the Bridgeless Canyon" (), pieced together the history of cultural and religious discrimination against Homosexual people and contains personal stories of LGBTQ+ people impacted by non-incl
Author Kathy Baldock and Ed Oxford, a fan of Baldock&#;s work turned co-sleuth, are heads down in research mode at the Yale Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, Conn. They are deep in the archives, and when I say deep, I mean they have already been through roughly 60, documents. The award-winning documentary The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture can build even slogging through files look riveting. They are hunting for any commentary on why the synonyms “homosexual” was added to the Bible.
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You read that right. The word “homosexual” was not always in the Bible. It first appears relatively recently, in the Revised Standard Version (RSV) published in The RSV translation committee had voted to combine the Greek words malakoi (soft or effeminate) and arsenokoitai (men who have sex with men, typically in an exploitative context) and translate them as “homosexual.” This of course had disastrous consequences for 2SLGBTQ+ people. But the RSV got it wrong. Using “homosexual” in 1 Corinthians , a verse about sexual assault, was a mistranslation. An error.
Back at the archives, the film captures the moment wh
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