From Brit Hume's 'Political Grapevine':
The Gaia Napa Valley Hotel & Spa wants to become California's first certified "green" hotel — meaning it is friendly to the environment. Bloomberg reports the facility is equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper.
It also is doing away with one staple of hotel rooms all across the world — the Gideon Bible. It seems that the effort to be green has led the hotel to move the Bible out of the nightstand drawer — replacing it on the bureau will be a copy of Al Gore's global warming book — "An Inconvenient Truth."
Ok, I've got no problem with a hotel ending the practice of storing Bibles in each room. That's always seemed a bit silly to me anyway. Folks who really want to read the Bible every night will probably be carrying one with them. And the 'green' hotel could probably have gotten some good press if they said they were not stocking the Bibles so that they would not contribute to needless deforestation or something like that. To replace a religious text with a book by AL GORE, though? That's just silly. As though anything Al "I'm a tree" Gore has to say is remotely on par with the word of God. I'm not just irritated because it's my religion, either. I'd think this was just as dumb if it involved the Torah or the Quran or whatever other holy scriptures there are in the world.
Welcome to the cult religion of environmentalism.