Filmmaker Sharon “Rocky” Roggio in a scene from 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted a Culture A new documentary film explores how scholars at Yale included mistranslated language into the 1946 Revised Standard Version Bible, and the damage that mistranslation has done TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@DallasVoice.com Sharon Roggio grew up with a Christian pastor for a father, but she also grew up knowing that she was different.
She knew she was lesbian, and she knew that the Christian religion and it’s Bible condemned her for that. So when she heard about how the word “homosexual” first came to be used in the Bible because of a glaring mistranslation of the Greek text, Roggio knew she had to get that knowledge to others — to other LGBTQ