BBB:Short article from Birmingham News on Bible revisions  by Peter Ruckman

  From the Birmingham News (Sept. 22, 1989), we read that the revised
English Bible has Jesus riding a donkey, not an ass TO AVOID OFFENSE.
The editor, Roger Coleman, says, "The old usage of the classic example
of offense is being called in the U.S. for obvious reasons. References
to `ass' have been adjusted to the inoffensive and ambiguous `donkey.'"

   Can you imagine that? Americans being offended by the term "ass."
How about "hell"? How about "damn"? How about "cursed"? Imagine just
for a minute the average television viewer in America in front of his
cablevision watching his X-rated, pornographic movies or just any talk
show, complete with hells, damns, and four letter words, being offended
by Jesus Christ riding "a colt, the foal of an ass." All the boobies
are not in the hatch.

