On 30 Nov, 16:59, Bert Hyman wrote:
(Mark K. Bilbo) wrote :

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:20:50 +0000, Craig Welch wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2bhepg

Funny, that article says essentially nothing is going on either
way.

"Scandic's decision has not generated any debate on the general
idea of placing copies of The Bible in hotel rooms."

In Finland.

So where's all this "public outrage" and stuff?

In Sweden. Last summer.

http://www.forward.com/articles/1124...ove-all-bibles...

... etc.

"Public outrage" conveys the impression of spontaneous and vociferous
discontent among the general population.
What actually occured was a religious fundamentalist group with
money,threatening to organise a boycott of the hotel chain unless the
bibles were put back again. The hotel chain, with nothing to win and
and possibly some money to lose, chose, in the normal Swedish non-
confrontational manner, to put the bibles back. End of story.
It doesn't really signify anything and passed under the public news
radar without a trace.


In California. Last spring.

http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Religion

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |