Why would a person steal a bible?

From today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/thou-shall-not-steal-a-bible/nXckN/

I don’t get it. Evangelists stand on street corners handing them out for nothing. You could walk into almost any church anywhere and ask the clergyman/woman – I can’t imagine that you would be turned down.

I imagine that religiously based social organizations have piles of them for people to use and take away.

So why would a person steal a bible?