Ian McKellen vs. Hotel Bibles McKellen comments on cutting up Gideon Bibles he comes across in hotels:
“I’m not proudly defacing the book,” he asserts, “but it’s a choice between removing that page and throwing away the whole Bible.
McKellen says his actions have inspired others to do the same. “I got delivered a package of 40 of those pages that had been torn out by a married couple I know. They put them on a bit of string so that I could hang it up in the bathroom.”
Using tolerance as the battering ram by which you smash books, excise thoughts and suppress opinion? Now that’s progressive!