So Rocky Raccoon
Went back to his room
Only to find
I guess Gideon did INDEED check out!
Posted on 11/18/2007 2:10:16 PM PST by wagglebee
Hotel chains are removing Bibles from guest rooms, replacing them with "intimacy kits" and adding "One Night Stand" packages as well as "romance concierge" personnel to their offerings, according to a new report in Newsweek. Tens of thousands of Americans are protesting the trend, through an action e-mail alert sponsored by American Family Association. The Newsweek report by Roya Wolverson suggested a new marketing campaign could be based on the apparent values-less programs that are appearing. "Marriott spokesman John Wolf says the Bible question [whether to include them in guest rooms] is premature for the new [boutique hotel] venture, which he describes as 'cutting-edge,' 'more urban' and 'less values-oriented.' Now, there's a marketing slogan no one's tried yet: 'Sleep with us. Leave the values at home!'" Wolverson wrote.
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No, you are not very subtly implying that adultery is fashionable.
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There’s enough biological material already crawling around on hotel bedspreads without encouraging more.
I recently stayed at a Courtyard Marriott in Houston and had to request a Bible from the front desk. It was the first time I’d ever stayed at a hotel where Scripture wasn’t a standard item.
Dark times are coming, FRiends.
Then a business decision will be made to accept free Bible placement by the Gideons again.
That’s gross.
Does this mean nice hotels are going to start charging by the hour?
I don't think a Gideon's in the nightstand is going to do a lot to keep brothels from being brothels. Seems sad to see them go, though.
I leave mine places some times (unintentionally) and have read out of the Gideons but most Christians carry their own Bible. I think these bed side Bibles were primarily meant for comfort for the lone, lost traveler though. I suggest we all start leaving Bibles behind more often, where ever we are.
Buy inexpensive Bibles wholesale and/or from some of your discount stores.
Leave a Bible in one of the chest of drawers or night stand — preferably in a bottom drawer (less checked) at the hotel or motel you are staying at.
Smiling at you...while you were posting, I was typing.
Replacing the comfort of the handy Bible is the convenience of an iPod docking station, a flat-screen TV, a selection of underground music, a complimentary goldfish, or in some edgier hotels – an intimacy kit, according to a recent Newsweek article.
“So it turns out that the real story is not just the absence of the Bible in many hotel rooms, but the presence of very different materials, from complimentary condoms to erotic dice games,” Mohler noted. “That does help to explain things.”
The Sofitel hotel brand, for instance, is changing its image to cater to the younger, less-business oriented – and apparently less religious – generation of clientele. The Sofitel chain, which once had Bibles in every guest rooms, recently removed them when guests questioned why other religious texts weren’t available, according to Newsweek.
Even the Marriot hotel chain, founded by a Mormon, is questioning whether it should include Bibles in its upcoming boutique chain, which Marriott spokesman John Wolf describes as “cutting-edge,” “more urban” and “less values-oriented,” according to the magazine.
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I’m a Catholic and have never been offended to find a KJV (a translation that is not approved by the Catholic Church) in my room. In Marriott hotels, the Book of Mormon is also included. I have never been offended. If the owner wants to put a Koran in there, that’s okay by me, too.
I am more offended by the stupid environmentalist messages that are designed to save the hotel money.
As far as I know, NO hotel/motel has ever (or at least not in our lifetimes) spent money to provide Bibles, they are all donated by the Gideons.
The Gideons and Christians as a whole should not be punished because other groups won't do the same.
Well, guess where we're not going to be staying anytime soon...
I use every towel every night on purpose, I'm sick of hotels trying to get out of providing a service that I am paying for.
If CAIR wants Muhammad’s hate-filled treatise in hotels, then they need to spend their own money and put them there. The Gideons are privately funded and do not charge hotels for the Bibles (though I presume that many make donations).
Hasn't been a problem for the past 99 years. Why should it be a problem now?
If some other faith wants their book there too, it’s up to them to put it there with permission from the hotel. THIS is the common sense solution.
BTW, those gideon bibles are free to take. That’s what they are there for. The gideons are hoping you do take them.
Now consider yourself informed.
The Gideons and Christians as a whole should not be punished because other groups won’t do the same.
Thanks for that image — next time I stay at a hotel, I’ll try to sleep standing up.
Be sure you are wearing socks!
I guess Gideon did INDEED check out!
Gideon checked out
and left it no doubt,
to help with poor Rocky’s revival!
Yes, but how many hotels would want that hate-filled screed in their bed-side tables?
The Muslims know they can’t get Korans into hotels, so they’re trying to get Bibles out. And the hotels are responding by simply getting rid of any religious literature, which from their point of view is probably the best approach, and I can’t really say I blame them.
Muslims are out there at every moment, trying to work their garbage into our society and make us accept it as perfectly normal and worthy of equal respect. It isn’t.
On Christmas Eve 1968, the astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission read from the first part of Genesis during a live television broadcast from lunar orbit. A Japanese correspondent staying at a Houston hotel while covering the mission called NASA Public Affairs to request a copy of the speech that the astronauts were reading. The Public Affairs official asked where he was staying and then told him that if he opened the desk drawer in his room he would find a book and that he should open it to page one. The reporter found the Gideon Bible and later reported that “NASA Public Affairs is very efficient - they had a mission transcript waiting in my hotel room.”
http://www.astronautix.com/flights/apollo8.htm
Last time I was at a Marriott all they had was the book of mormon.
I'm sure if they did that, many of the Korans would end up in the bathroom, if you catch my drift.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. :^)
How about, "When you'd sleep with anyone. Come sleep with us."?
From Gideons to Gid-id-ons ?
Actually, you may have hit on something. If hotels provide wi-fi, or even internet access via the TV, any traveller can access any version of the Bible (or anything else) he wants. This may be less of a “problem” than some think (though the loss of a tradition may be somewhat sad).
LOL!!
Glenn Beck and Trace Atkins were discussing this the other night on Beck’s show...Trace talked about how upset he would be if his young boys found the kit and wanted to know what it was.
Now every room can be a Bill Klinton Presidential Suite!
Once, back in the sixties, a rather upscale motel at a major intersection in Dallas put up on the marquee the message “Have your next affair here”. I think it was with innocent intentions, but it caused such a stir that a couple of days later it was replaced with “Honi Soit Que Mal Y Pense” (approximate translation: Shamed be He Who Thinks Evil Of It). Touche!
Dark times are coming, FRiends.”
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You, IOTN, are right on the money....just a matter of time.
Read the headlines, we’re running right on schedule.
This is why I sleep Snoopy Style when I am not in my own bed.
My mother-in-law, a trained Christian missionary, leaves bibles at rest stops for those who need hope and salvation.
I checked in to a hotel once where a lady was raising hell with the desk clerk because she found a copy of Bhagavad Gita in addition to the normal Bible. She stormed off when I told her that I would read it if she didn’t want to. The clerk said that she had daily requests by travelers wanting to take a copy with them. Obviously there is curiosity and having a second Holy Book ain’t gonna hurt a thing.
I agree, that will happen.
Never take a UV flashlight to a hotel room,you will exit screaming.
How many books should a hotel have to allow in their limited drawer space?
Well, duh, I already knew that. I was referring to the fact that if every cult wanted their sacred books placed in hotel drawers there wouldn’t be space for my socks.
Hotels are not required to have any books. However, since the United States is overwhelmingly Judeo-Christian, hotels have long understood that their patrons would not be offended to find a Bible in the desk or nightstand.
True, but what we are talking about is a hotel not wanting them in. If the hotel doesn’t want them, its their business. Some of the comments I’ve gotton seem to be missing the topic at hand.
However, hotels need to also be prepared to accept the consequences that will likely come from their decision.
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