(November 16, 2015 at 11:48 am)mh.brewer Wrote:(November 15, 2015 at 3:30 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Public, meaning tax payers use it and or built it, like military bases or public park lodging. Private, not funded by tax payers.
OK, public no bibles, private-you don't get to choose.
Huh? Not sure if you are objecting or not. I thought my OP was clear. "It is not the proper context to allow this" is not the same as "never do it at all".
Public venues or private venues government contracts are paid for by the tax payers. So if you want religious books in them, you have to provide that opportunity to all. It is simply impractical in the context of a room, to put every holy book ever written in a nightstand. A library, public, or state college, or public museum, is suited for that a limited sized nightstand is not. So the easier thing to do is simply allow anyone who uses that room to bring their own book in with them. The publishers of the bible, no profit or not, are exploiting that to the exclusion of all others,but even if the publishers said "We would be ok with other holy books next to ours" you not only run into the issue of space, others will cry that is political correctness. But if we simply say "bring your own" That avoids any potentially needless argument.
