Posted on 08/31/2007 12:45:40 PM PDT by NYer
AUKLAND, NZ, August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - British Actor Ian McKellen who has used the mega-stardom he achieved playing Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films to promote homosexuality, has admitted to ripping out pages of hotel bibles that refer to homosexuality.
In an August 10 interview on New Zealand's TV1 Close Up program McKellen was confronted by the interviewer questioning the truth of the rumour "He's the one, that when he stays in hotels rips the part of the bible out that criticizes homosexuality."
"Yes it is true," responded McKellen in even tones. "Its Leviticus 18:22 that I object to, or is it 22:18, I've always got to look it up. Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination. And they, I think the punishment for an abomination was being stoned to death," he said.
McKellen added, "I think it's rather obscene and pornographic, and shouldn't be there, so I remove it."
Asked how many bibles he has vandalized, McKellen replied, "I have no idea, but other people do it as well, people send me evidence that they have been removing that."
McKellen has been vandalizing bibles in the same fashion for at least a few years. He first admitted publicly to the activity in 2004 in an interview with the UK Telegraph. (see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4UNBF1... )
In May last year, McKellen campaigned for homosexual 'marriage' in Britain. He complained that a then-new UK law allowing homosexual civil unions did not go far enough. "I really can't see why the government couldn't just say gay people can get married - that would have been true equality and so much simpler. But that hasn't been done because they couldn't face the furore," he said.
Ironically, the genius behind the story which gave McKellen his current pedestal - J.R. Tolkien - held that homosexuality was a disorder and was a staunch defender of traditional Catholic teaching on sexual morality.
Tolkien's thoughts on human sexuality are most clearly represented in his personal writings. In Tolkein's letter to his then-21 year old son Michael, he warned that illicit sexuality is one of the prime dangers for souls. "The devil is endlessly ingenious, and sex is his favorite subject," he wrote.
Tolkien was very aware of the hardships of remaining faithful in marriage, but recognized that in only in God's plan for marriage can happiness be found. He wrote, "No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial." And in another place he said, "Christian marriage is not a prohibition of sexual intercourse, but the correct way of sexual temperance--in fact probably the best way of getting the most satisfying sexual pleasure."
See the TV1 Up Close interview with McKellen here:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/1287942?band...
>>Gandalf’s gay? That explains why he never punched that moron Frodo.<<
I’ve wondered if that’s why he turned down the Dumbledore role.
For his reference, he needs to rip out the pages containing the following verses: 7:80-81, 26:165-6, 27:54-55, 29:28-29.
The reactions of Christians I see here seems generally along the lines of a reasonable "You idiot." We know what the Muslim reaction will be if he takes your advice.
Maybe he's doing research for a new "Martin Luther" movie.
Why, the poor man is Biblophobic!
>>Tolkien’s thoughts on human sexuality are most clearly represented in his personal writings.<<
I wonder what the author bases that on. Its a rare father who doesn’t discourage sex by his kids no matter what the father feelings in general about sex are.
Ripping Leviticus 18:22 out of the Bible doesn’t change the truth. Homosexuality is a sin, and repentance is the cure through a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 10:9-10, 1 John 1:9).
Bloody Fairies! (I couldn't find the pic)
That’ll show em.
Ah, so true, Lion’s Gate.~
And in the process admits it's a sin.
Did you pee facing Mecca? That would have completed the effect.
Sounds like he's imitating Luther.
guideline
this fag certainly isn’t a believer in the Bible, making vandalism of it a hate crime, no ?
So he actually admits that there are passages in the Bible against homosexuality? I wonder what the reaction is of his fellow gays who protest that there’s nothing in the Bible like that. Oops!
This just goes to show that one can be a very good actor and still be a maroon.
The bible is like a hologram. You can tear out pages and not much resolution is going to be lost.
McKellen added, "I think it's rather obscene and pornographic, and shouldn't be there, so I remove it."
And does so with complete ignoramic arrogance. May he search for The Truth one day.
Well, he won’t be able to declare on judgment day that he didn’t know what the Bible said about his deeds.
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