British hotel replaces each room's Bible with a copy of erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey
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Instead of placing the traditional Gideon Bible at arm’s reach, the hotel has put in each of its 40 rooms a copy of E.L. James’ best-selling erotic novel
Fifty Shades of Grey. Hotel owner Jonathan Denby
told NBC News that in a secular society, it was “wholly inappropriate” to put a religious book in someone’s bedroom
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Since the Damson Dene’s dirty little secret has emerged, the hotel has received dozens of angry e-mails — not from Britons, but from Americans — demanding that the Bibles be restored beside the beds.
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Unsurprisingly, the move has also attracted the ire of local parish priest Michael Woodcock, who
told the Westmorland
Gazette that “it is a great shame that Bibles have been removed from rooms and very inappropriate to have been replaced by an explicit erotic novel.”
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