Hospital bosses in Britain were meeting on Friday to discuss a controversial move to ban Bibles from patients' bedsides after they were decreed not only insensitive to other religions but also a health risk. . .
. . . The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, which runs the three main hospitals in the ethnically diverse city, said it is considering removing Bibles from bedside lockers because they might offend patients of other religions.
Additionally, it said, it is concerned the books could increase the risk of spreading the highly antibiotic-resistant infection MRSA in wards if they become contaminated with body fluids.
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Ah, the one-two punch: There's the real reason (the multi-cultural one) and then the one that the public might buy (the health reason). And you gotta love the health risk: If a patient bleeds on the Bible, it could become contaminated. We assume other books and also magazines will be banned, too, unless it's the Koran.
