Gallery invites people to deface Bible | World News | News.com.au
The exhibition, which also includes a woman ripping pages from a Bible and stuffing them into her underwear, has outraged the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Scotland.
But the gallery's artist in residence, Anthony Schrag, is unrepentant.
"Any offensive things that have been written are not the point of the work," Schrag told The Times newspaper.
"It was an open gesture. Are those who say they are upset offended by the things that people write, or just by the very notion that someone should write on a Bible?
"If we are to open up the Bible for discussion, surely we have to invite people to speak out."
The Metropolitan Community Church originally proposed the exhibition as a way of reclaiming the Bible as a sacred text.
However, some of its members have been shocked by the insults written in the Bible on display.
"The Bible should never be used like that," church minister Jane Clarke said.
"It was our intention to reclaim it as a sacred text."
A Catholic Church spokesman said: "One wonders whether the organisers would have been quite as willing to have the Koran defaced."
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