IAN MCKELLEN - MCKELLEN TEARS OUT BIBLE'S ANTI-GAY PAGE IN HOTEL ROOMS

MCKELLEN TEARS OUT BIBLE'S ANTI-GAY PAGE IN HOTEL ROOMS

SIR IAN MCKELLEN is so offended by the Bible's anti-gay stance he makes a point of ripping out the relevant page every time he stays in a hotel room. The openly homosexual actor, a longtime campaigner for gay rights, accepts he shouldn't vandalise the Bible, but finds it difficult to contain his outrage at the contents of Leviticus 20:13 when he spots the holy book in hotels. MCKellen says, "It's the one thing I find difficult to defend but do go on doing." The Leviticus 20:13 passage reads: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them."