HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as "indecent" due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal.
A spokesperson for Hong Kong's Television and Entertainment Licensing authority (TELA) said it had received 838 complaints about the Bible by noon on Wednesday.
If the Bible is similarly classified as "indecent" by authorities, only those over 18 could buy the holy book and it would need to be sealed in a wrapper with a statutory warning notice.
TELA said it was still undecided on whether the Bible had violated Hong Kong's obscene and indecent articles laws.
So here is a question, should books of historical or religious significance be exempt from such restrictions (Assuming that the restrictions are in place and will remain so)? Or should all books be held to the same standards?
According to Wikipedia, Christians makes up about 7% of the population. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong#Religion ), so I imagine most people over there would view it as historically important, but still just a work of fiction.