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Ian McKellen --hotel gideon bibles.
Out actor Sir Ian McKellen, fed up with what some see as an antigay stance, rips out the pages of the Bible that denounce homosexuality each time he goes to a hotel.
McKellen admitted he shouldn't destroy Christianity's holy book, but he finds it difficult to curb his disgust with Leviticus 20:13, the passage that cited with condemning homosexuality, Ireland Online reports.
"It's the one thing I find difficult to defend but do go on doing," he said in the article. (The Advocate)
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid48536.asp
Leviticus 20:13 reads: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them."
I would not like to be in a room where the hotel management left a book containing the instruction to "kill all mixed race people". I think Sir Ian should be congratulated on taking this pro active step to help put an end to hate material
When I have a pen to hand I usually write "if you enjoyed this book you may enjoy reading 'Andersen's Fairy Tales'", in the inside back cover.
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Her should also rip out Lev.18:22 and Rom.1:26-27 as well then.
Just for peoples information....Yep those are pretty bad as well. I think the reason being that those are just saying it's a sin, whereas Lev 20:13 say's that homosexual should be put to death.
Ironically, I think this passage was tacked onto the end of the book in later translations.
[EDIT]Similar passages can be found in Deuteronomy 4:2 and Proverbs 30:6.
Wasn't Revelation largely 'tacked on' at the end anyway?
It's not Revelation it's Romans
Bred on night after the umpteenth time staying in a hotel, i flicked through a bible, and it says in there that its ok to kill a burglar so long as you do it before dawn, and if a woman commits adultery she should be killed.
Hahahaha. It also says further on somewhere that those laws no longer apply. I'm sure we have old laws too that are similar.
Personally it surprises me why hotels continue to endorse this filth - surely they are opening themselves up to legal action.
Last time I checked I thought inciting hatred, and murder were crimes.
Ah I was kinda just discussing the dodgyness of Revelation as a book but yes, I know there's a very homophobic passage in Romans (is it the "sinful lusts" one, from memory?)
Don't eat shellfish or wear clothes with two different types of fabric on them either. Leviticus tells us that's a definite no-no. So prawn sandwiches are out of the window I'm afraid.
(I do actually wonder if he actually does it, or just says he does)
I'll bet you a tenner he does. :cool: He's always had a reputation of not holding back when it comes to gay rights.
There is no reason that we should have to put up with it for ANY reason at all.
If religion can't or refuses to change, then ban it!
So far fetched....:rolleyes: