And, speaking of sex, violence and doubtful literature

A debate raging over the morals of Hong Kong’s racy media took a bizarre twist Wednesday with revelations that a decency watchdog had been flooded with obscenity complaints about the Bible.

The Television and Entertainments Licensing Authority (Tela), which oversees the publishing industry, said it had received 208 complaints that text within the holy book was indecent. religious news blog via magic stats

Quick, call Kate. Lot’s daughters??

Of course, to be fair, there is not much chance of the Bible being an assigned text in a Canadian public school so our children are safe.

Written by jay on May 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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