Gideons International, with a current membership in excess of 300,000, has distributed more than two billion Bibles and New Testaments around the globe since its founding in 1908. Last year alone the organization gave more than 88 million Bibles to prisoners, police officers, firefighters, medical and military personnel, shelters, hospitals, hotels, motels, and other people and places.
However, if the Freedom From Religion Foundation has its way, hotels and motels across the country may soon be removing those complimentary Bibles.
Incorporated in 1978, the FFRF touts approximately 23,000 members who bill themselves as “freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, and skeptics of any pedigree.” Claiming to be nontheistic, the foundation has a long history of battling to remove all mention of God or Christianity from the public sector under the alleged doctrine of a “separation of Church and State.” The...