2007-09-25 09:05:08 · 69 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it's silly, but unconstitutional...nah.
2007-09-25 09:07:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jenae, TV (tempter of the vile) 5 · 11⤊ 3⤋
Why would it be unconstitutional? I think you need to learn what that term means. Now if the hotel were owned by the government there might be a problem but since they are private institutions the government is not involved. If the hotel owner wants to paper the hotel with Jesus wallpaper, hang religious pictures on the wall, and have gospel music playing in every room there is nothing the government can or will do.
2007-09-25 09:10:18 · answer #2 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Uh Did congress place those bibles in every hotel room? Did they pass a law that says they have to be in every hotel room? No and No- So No it is not unconstitutional.
It is no more unconstitutional than you asking this stupid question.
2007-09-25 09:16:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If there were a law that there must be a bible in every room, it would be. Since there isn't a law requiring it, note that it would actually be unconstitutional to forbid putting Bibles in hotel rooms.
That's the 'establishment clause'. The US government can't establish or forbid the practice of any religion.
2007-09-25 09:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by wayfaroutthere 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I do think that there would be other religious books there as well if the cost of printing and leaving them wasn't so high. As far as I know there isn't a law that says only the Bible can be in a hotel room drawer, so that would be constitutional. It's only when the law prohibits something, or requires something that constitutionality comes into play.
2007-09-25 09:12:24 · answer #5 · answered by Janet T 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only if it were a government funded hotel.
But since hotels are private businesses, they can do whatever they wish.
Why would having a bible in a hotel room offend anyway?
I am pagan and I have several bibles in my home. It's not like it contains some kind of magical power to affect you in any way.
2007-09-25 09:09:05 · answer #6 · answered by pixie_pagan 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think it's entirely up to the hotel what they want to put in their hotel rooms. It would be interesting to see copies of the Koran and the Origin of Species in hotel rooms too, but in western countries the Bible will probably remain there for some time and when it is finally removed it will not be replaced with any other book.
2007-09-25 09:08:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hotels are private businesses. They can put what ever they want in the rooms. A Bible in the drawer or porn on the TV, take your pick. At least the Bible is free.
2007-09-25 09:23:41 · answer #8 · answered by Dumb Question Judge 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Is a hospital emergency room in every town a necessity? Is public education necessary? Where would people be without education? Lost! The bridge is out folks, the road leads to the abyss.
Bibles must be in hotel rooms because the ministry of the Gideons is trying to help people. Without God people are doomed but they don't realize it, they are blinded and they call it wise intellect.
2007-09-25 09:18:07 · answer #9 · answered by peterngoodwin 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. Hotels are private property and they can place Bibles in their hotel rooms if they so choose.
A Bible in every classroom would be a problem.
2007-09-25 09:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably not unconstitutional. But unless there's also a copy of the Koran, the Rig Veda, the Upanishads, the ... *deep breath* ... along with a copy of The God Delusion and maybe Faust, (I just happen to like that one, OK.) it certainly doesn't seem fair.
That way everybody has something to read when the movie channels are showing bugger-all.
2007-09-25 09:10:16 · answer #11 · answered by dead_elves 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋