Erasing the Bible's "liberal bias," and more

Erasing the Bible's "liberal bias"

A U.S. conservative group has launched an effort to erase the “liberal bias’’ from English translations of the Bible. The Wikipedia-style Conservative Bible Project invites users to comb existing translations, editing instances of the “gender-inclusive language” that has “emasculated” Christianity; replacing “socialistic” words like “comrade” and “laborer”; and clarifying any ambiguous passages that might perpetuate “the pervasive and hurtful myth that Jesus would be a political liberal today.”

Bar-top dancing leads to lawsuit

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A Kentucky woman, injured after falling off a bar she was dancing on, is suing the bar owners for $500,000. The lawyer for Brittany Barnes says that since the Coyote Ugly Saloon in Nashville encourages bar-top dancing, the bar should be “kept dry, just like the floor of the bar or the aisle of a grocery store.”