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?
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