Sex outside of marriage will get you fired by the American Bible Society

[True Dough]

Fuck them!

The American Bible Society, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that translates and distributes Bibles around the world, wants employees to agree to abstain from sex outside marriage — or resign.

In a policy recently made public, the organization also defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. That means LGBT employees could be disqualified from working at the nonprofit. So could sexually active straight employees who live with a partner but are not married.

Employees who don’t commit to the terms by Jan. 1, 2019, will be told to resign. The policy is a shift for the organization, which previously did not require staffers to abide by such an agreement.

Up to nine employees have already left, according to a current staffer who has worked at the nonprofit for more than a decade and would be affected because she lives with a partner outside of marriage.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/american-bible-society-philadelphia-christian-beliefs-marriage-lgbt-20180530.html

[Ilsa]

1. It is easy to find co-habitors, but

what if a person signs the agreement and quietly ignores it? Are they going to spy on their employees? Are they going to try and get women's gyn records to see if they are using birth control?

We know this exposes women more easily than men. They may find their offices almost empty.

[bitterross]

2. Why would any intelligent person work there anyway?

Good grief. The place translates a book assembled in about 326 CE that plagiarizes from much earlier myths and calls itself the original, inspired word of the one true god. Then they push it on the poor in other countries. Why not use the money and effort to educate and feed people instead? As we have seen over and over again, thoughts and prayers don't do shit for anybody in this life.

What a complete waste the whole organization is. It's also a non-profit. It can't pay very well to begin with.

[MontanaMama]

3. Dotard couldn't work there...

and neither could most GOPers in Congress.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Nor could a lot of ministers and televangelists.

[Duppers]

5. My first thought.

[Major Nikon]

6. I suppose it's hard to promote a book of intolerance without embracing the intolerance

[Blue Owl]

7. Only the unhealthy need apply

n/t

[MineralMan]

8. Well, soon enough, I suspect, they'll have no employees at all.

That might be a good thing, I suppose, depending on one's point of view on distribution of the Bible.