Northern Illinois University to Remove Bibles from Guest Rooms Following Atheist Complaint

By Heather Clark - Posted at Christian News Network:

DEKALB, Ill. — Officials at Northern Illinois University have agreed to remove all Bibles from the guest rooms at their campus student center following a complaint from a prominent atheist activist organization.

The Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) reports that it recently sent a letter to the university to assert that the presence of the Bibles was unconstitutional. Co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor and her husband Dan Barker discovered the Bibles while staying at the Holmes Student Center Hotel during a visit to the area to speak to a chapter of the Secular Student Alliance.

ā€œProviding Bibles to Holmes Student Center Hotel guests sends the message that NIU endorses the religious texts,ā€ the letter read. ā€œIncluding Bibles sends the message to non-Christian and non-religious guests that they should read the Bible, and specifically the version of the Bible provided: the Gideon Bible.ā€

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