University to banish 'discriminatory' Holy Book into wilderness

[emad]

Times
By Shirley English

EDINBURGH University is set to ban Bibles from its student halls of residence amid concern that the Holy Book is “discriminatory” and makes students of other faiths feel unwelcome.

The move is the result of protests from the students’ association and is being considered in an effort to pursue a policy of “evenly supporting all faiths”, a university spokesman said yesterday.

A Gideon Bible is traditionally placed in every new student’s room at the start of the academic year and there are currently around 2,000 Bibles in the Pollock Halls campus on the edge of Holyrood Park.

Their distribution is now seen as inappropriate and potentially offensive to non-Christians. The student body is drawn from 120 countries and represents a broad spectrum of faiths, it is argued.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1835674,00.html

[sasquatch]

1. *Waiting for someone to make a Bill Hicks Gideon joke*

:popcorn:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. No book bans please, especially at university. Stop Gideon distribution.

[WildClarySage]

3. There's a difference between banning bibles

and ceasing to provide them. Seems pretty obvious to me, so why is the first line of the article so misleading?

[MountainLaurel]

5. So stir up Christians' martyr complex n/t

[ret5hd]

4. seems written to be inflammatory (to me)...

it doesn't sound like they are "banning the bible", but rather "ceasing to distribute the bible"...two entirely different things.

but then, i'm too lazy this morning to read anything other than the snip above, so if i'm wrong, please correct me.