The Daily Mail with customary vigour reports on a show at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow where visitors are invited to write comments in a copy of the Bible. The show, called Made In God's Image, was curated by artists Anthony Schrag and David Malone, and this particular exhibit was presented by the Metropolitan Community Church, a liberal denomination ministering particularly to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer community.
They invited people: "If you feel you've been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it." According to the Mail, the work has "the aim of reclaiming the Bible as a sacred text", particularly for gays, lesbians, and other people who feel marginalised. Inevitably, some people have written rude comments in the Bible, including "FACIST GOD" (sic), as well as more harmless remarks like: "I have no religion belief, but I try very hard to be a good person, and 'That is it!'", "Everyone is a person no matter what", and "I don't want in."
According to the Mail, the show has been condemned by George Reid, a former Scottish National Party MP and ex-Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (the Mail gets this title wrong), and spokespeople from the Christian Institute, the Christian Legal Centre, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Taxpayers' Alliance. A Church of Scotland spokesperson said, "We would discourage anyone from defacing the Bible."
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