Hotel Bibles Replaced with Intimacy Kits

Despairing of life, a man checks into a hotel at the end of a depressing day. Due to corporate layoffs, he has lost his job, and is unable to pay his mortgage, car payment, or child support. Reaching into a corner of his luggage, he uncovers a loaded revolver. With trembling hands he places the barrel next to his temple. Just as he is about to pull the trigger, he thinks of his last hope.

He needs to read a passage from the Scriptures, longing for anything that will encourage him not to give up. He fumbles with the bedside table drawers, looking for a Gideon Bible. Knowing that every hotel and motel room has one, he continues his frantic search. It must be here somewhere...But instead of the Bible, he finds a "One Night Stand" package, and an "Intimacy Kit" with free condoms. In disbelief, he picks up the gun, puts it to his head, and slowly pulls the trigger.

Today's hotels have every amenity known to man, from flat screen TVs, Jacuzzis, mini-bars, high speed Internet connections, iPod docking stations, robes and slippers, to complimentary goldfish. Goldfish? Manhattan's Soho Grand Hotel even supplies goldfish for your room upon request. They also offer digital cable, DVD players, in room CD selection, wireless high speed Internet connection, gourmet mini-bar, bathrobes, Bose wave radio/CD player, flat screen TVs, and toiletries from famous beauty lines.

But you will not find a Bible in the drawer of the bedside table. They have never put Bibles in the rooms because, according to hotel spokeswoman, Lori DeBlois, "Society evolves." She explained that if they supplied Bibles, then the hotel "would have to take care of every guest's belief."

This is not just the attitude of trendy, uptown exclusive hotels. All over the United States, motels and hotels are saying goodbye to Bibles, according to a Newsweek Web Exclusive, by Roya Wolverson. Leisure travel has overtaken business travel, and today's new generation is more interested in the new "boutique" style hotels, that offer sexual "lifestyle products" instead of Scriptures.