Posted on 08/31/2007 12:45:40 PM PDT by NYer
AUKLAND, NZ, August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - British Actor Ian McKellen who has used the mega-stardom he achieved playing Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films to promote homosexuality, has admitted to ripping out pages of hotel bibles that refer to homosexuality.
In an August 10 interview on New Zealand's TV1 Close Up program McKellen was confronted by the interviewer questioning the truth of the rumour "He's the one, that when he stays in hotels rips the part of the bible out that criticizes homosexuality."
"Yes it is true," responded McKellen in even tones. "Its Leviticus 18:22 that I object to, or is it 22:18, I've always got to look it up. Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination. And they, I think the punishment for an abomination was being stoned to death," he said.
McKellen added, "I think it's rather obscene and pornographic, and shouldn't be there, so I remove it."
Asked how many bibles he has vandalized, McKellen replied, "I have no idea, but other people do it as well, people send me evidence that they have been removing that."
McKellen has been vandalizing bibles in the same fashion for at least a few years. He first admitted publicly to the activity in 2004 in an interview with the UK Telegraph. (see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4UNBF1... )
In May last year, McKellen campaigned for homosexual 'marriage' in Britain. He complained that a then-new UK law allowing homosexual civil unions did not go far enough. "I really can't see why the government couldn't just say gay people can get married - that would have been true equality and so much simpler. But that hasn't been done because they couldn't face the furore," he said.
Ironically, the genius behind the story which gave McKellen his current pedestal - J.R. Tolkien - held that homosexuality was a disorder and was a staunch defender of traditional Catholic teaching on sexual morality.
Tolkien's thoughts on human sexuality are most clearly represented in his personal writings. In Tolkein's letter to his then-21 year old son Michael, he warned that illicit sexuality is one of the prime dangers for souls. "The devil is endlessly ingenious, and sex is his favorite subject," he wrote.
Tolkien was very aware of the hardships of remaining faithful in marriage, but recognized that in only in God's plan for marriage can happiness be found. He wrote, "No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial." And in another place he said, "Christian marriage is not a prohibition of sexual intercourse, but the correct way of sexual temperance--in fact probably the best way of getting the most satisfying sexual pleasure."
See the TV1 Up Close interview with McKellen here:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/1287942?band...
I'm not sure how much control the Tolkien estate had over the production of these movies. CS Lewis's step son, Doug Gresham kept tight control over the making of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and wanted it to reflect the values and intent of Lewis. Even so, they had their own similar ex post facto embarassment when Jadis (Tilda Swinton) later made some controversial anti-religious remarks.
McCellen is so consumed with hate. Imagine having to associate with someone such as he.
Essentially zero. JRR sold the movie rights decades ago, the late 60s if I remember correctly, to pay a tax bill. He didn't worry about the way his books would be filmed because he was convinced it was impossible to do so.
And of course, he was right, as it only became possible in the last few years. Hooray for Peter Jackson and his people!
Ian is and apparently always has been an idiot. But his portrayal of Gandalf was magnificent. I remember wondering during the movie how they managed to get Gandalf to play himself. :)
So we can go around removing the classifieds from free “alternative” newspapers?
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Or how about destroying movies that we view as pornographic?
Huge by magneto? LOL!
There might be 3 other people who know him for that.
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Don’t even know who or what magneto is.
Actors always second guess writers and directors. God is both, and McKellan is just another petulant, half-whacked, trick talking meat.
You know what they say, though: “If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage.”
Thanks for that info — I’ll be making a donation to the Gideons so they can place even more Bibles wherever they are needed.
If he's going to do that, he'll have to take a whack at Genesis 19-20 and go back for Paul's famous epistle, and the lesser-known Epistle of St. Jude. The last is very short, but highly condemnatory of deviant sexuality and arsenokoitai and their pornoi.
Bible? No probelm. If he did that to the Koran (and the Koran does have passages regarding homosexuality) he’d have a death sentence against him.
22 It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him. 23 Whenever Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king cut them off with a scribe's knife and threw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll was burned in the fire. 24 The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.
Destroying the written proclamation of the King of the Universe changes NOTHING. The real King is still sovereign.
You're quite welcome and I'm delighted to hear of your plans, as I'm sure The Gideons will be.
They may also appreciate it if when you make your donation, you enclose a short note letting them know that your donation is in response to the news item you read about the vandalism of their Bibles by homosexual 'activists', including this famous actor. I have no doubt that they would find such information interesting and helpful. Perhaps it might be appropriate to enclose a printed copy of the article in case they haven't seen it? Just a thought.
Best wishes to you and yours :-)
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 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.
Psalm 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Methinks . . . he has unwittingly been setting up . . .
a very interesting manner of departing this time/space dimension . . .
God is incredibly partial toward His Word.
Many times a whole house will burn down to the ground and all the contents . . . except a slightly externally charred Bible.
In any case . . . short of wholesale repentance . . . I don’t think the actor has any idea what he’s set-up for himself . . . not too awfully far ahead, it would seem.
When and if God gets done with the educational discipline ahead . . .
it will be amazing if he has much left to think with.
Definitely his cogitations about himself will undergo a horrendous 180 degree change.
Homosexual Agenda ping
Famous homosexual actor proudly admits vandalizing Bibles placed in hotel rooms; apparently it’s a popular activity among homosexual ‘activists’ and their supporters.
I wonder if he tears out Rev. 22:19 as well?
“Its Leviticus 18:22 that I object to, or is it 22:18, I’ve always got to look it up.”
He should be more concerned about his own trial appearance:
Matthew 10:27-28
27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Mark 9:42-48
42 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— 44 where
‘ Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched.’
45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— 46 where
‘ Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched.’
47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire— 48 where
‘ Their worm does not die
And the fire is not quenched.’
Revelation 20:11-15
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,[c] and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Revelation 22:18-19
18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Another example of liberal “tolerance”. I wonder if he would object to guests at his house destroying books they disagreed with? Scratch the surface of a liberal and you will find a book-burning fascist.
“Gandalf’s gay? That explains why he never punched that moron Frodo.”
I think the whole freaking cast was gay (including the orcs).
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