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.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
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.
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