Good Book 'more likely to corrupt than survey'
A University of Hong Kong academic has lodged a complaint against Chinese University library for distributing 'indecent and obscene material' to students in that it carries copies of the Bible 'without suitable wrapping or warning'.
Sam Winter, an associate professor of education, made the complaint to the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (Tela) on Thursday, adding a new twist to the row over public standards of decency.
His letter said the Bible contained indecent and obscene material, including references to incest between father and daughters, a marriage between and a man and his sister, and a father who 'offers his two daughters to a crowd of men for sexual gratification'. 'There is much more material in the Bible likely to corrupt,' Dr Winter wrote.
A Tela spokesman said the authority had received 2,307 complaints of indecency against the Bible by 5pm yesterday, but had rejected the calls for it to be reclassified because it was 'a part of human civilisation'.
It is the largest number of complaints the authority has received about a single publication since last August, when it was sent in excess of 2,800 complaints about Easy Finder magazine's front-page photograph of pop star Gillian Chung Yan-tung changing her clothes backstage at a concert in Malaysia.