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Bible ban: Wis. university system removes book from campus center rooms


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/16/wisconsin-university-system-bans-gideons-bibles-ca/#ixzz2qyhh50yT

By Cheryl K. Chumley

The Washington Times

Thursday, January 16, 2014

** FILE ** Scholars will modernize the language in the New International Version, the Bible of choice for conservative evangelicals, as well as revisit the debate on gender terms. (Associated Press)The Wisconsin public university system removed all its copies of the   Gideon Bible from the campus conference center after the Freedom From   Religion Foundation complained of a constitutional violation.

Administrators  with the University of Wisconsin-Extension said they  received the  complaint in November and after weeks of consideration and  discussion,  decided to remove from the Lowell Center all 137 copies of  the bible — a  normal fixture at guest rooms and in hotels around the  nation.

“Permitting  members of outside religious groups the privilege of  placing their  religious literature in public university guest rooms  constitutes state  endorsement and advancement of these Christian  publications,” said  FFRF attorney Patrick Elliot, in a letter of  complaint, UPI reported.  And on the group’s website, he wrote that  “while private hotels may  choose to put any type of literature they want  in their guest rooms,  state-run colleges have a constitutional  obligation to remain neutral  toward religion.”

In response, a UW-Extension spokesman said in a  letter: “We reviewed  the concern raised about the placement of Bibles  in our guest rooms and  decided to remove them. We want to make sure all  guests are comfortable  in our lodging.”

Gideons International  gives the books for free to any hotel that  wants them, as a means of  winning “the lost for Christ,” their website  said

MrB’s response;

In order for anyone to find Bibles in Hotel rooms they have to DELICERATELY look for those Bibles becauxse they are never out in the open for anyone to see. You open a drawer, and there is the Bible. You don’t want to see it or read it, then CLOSE THE DRAWER. Simple. Now, when someone who wants to read the Bible finds it, they will have that opportunity.

These people are so deep in the dark, hating any light that will expose their philosophy as empty and baseless, that they squeal every time they accidentally find some light. As Christians, why are we letting them get away with this? I guess you really do have to be careful to select your battles.

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