Mckellen Bible Trend Catches on

02 November 2009

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Sir Ian McKellen's penchant for ripping out pages of the Bibles he finds in hotel rooms has caught on - fans have started sending him sections of text they've removed.

The openly gay Lord of the Rings star tears out a section of Leviticus,which condemns homosexuality, whenever he finds the good book in hotel suites - and his small-scale vandalism has inspired others to do the same.

He tells Details magazine, "I'm not proudly defacing the book, but it'sa choice between removing that page and throwing away the whole Bible. "I got delivered a package of 40 of those pages...

that had been torn out by a married couple I know

that had been torn out by a married couple I know.

They put them on a bit of string so that Icould hang it up in the bathroom".

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