"Gay Cure" Advert Banned

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...gland-london-17693947
what's left me utterly incomprehending is that tfl waited until the complaints started before pulling the ad. Did they really not think that offence might be taken?

[sp1814]

Lol @ Booldawg

[ummmm]

Don't tell Triggerhippy that!!

[andy-hughes]

As an atheist, I have no problem at all with Christianity, but quite a lot with a large number of Christians.

The first attitude that gets my dogs barking is the 'I have something you need, and you are a lesser person than me because you don't have it ...' which sets me right off!

Add to that this appaling notion that because the Bible decrees something to be 'wrong', that people have a right to castigate others for orientation.

I have always adopted the notion that anyone who is gay in our modern society, despite massive inroads in terms of tolerance and acceptance, still has a minority status and hostility to live with on a daily basis, and given the 'choice' - as Christians seem to think everyone is - no-one would opt for that staus willingly.

As it is, again in my experience, the majority of gay people possess far more of a sense of reality, compassion, empathy and humour than their Christian counterparts, and I know who I would rather live alongside any day.

[ludwig]

As others have said, I'm amazed the advert was OK'd in the first place.

[tamborine]

I thought the advert was a statement rather than a cure ?

[ludwig]

// These christians dont mince their words, do they //

Of course not, mincing is for gays.

[rov1100]

Very topical. This subject was brought up recently in AOG's about gays being married:

///Personally I think gayness should be another medical illness that requires treatment.///

Reminds you of the smoker who refuses to give up even though the experts keep telling them to.

[ummmm]

Rov, you meant it so much you felt the need to repeat it?

[rov1100]

What is so despicable ummm is teaching young kids thats its OK for someone to stick their penis into someone else's s-h-i-t.

[NOX]

you really are an ill educated muppet aren't you rov?

[andy-hughes]

rov1100 - quite apart from your steretotypically unpleasant image which marks you down quite clearly as a homophobe, i taught my children that love is vital for everyone, from an age when their sexuality was not defined, because the importance of love is the first and most important lesson.

Had I been blessed with sons, and any of them had been gay, the lesson would be the same - and i would never try to influence their thinking by reducing any aspect of their sexuality to an unpleasant soundbite, which is equally cheap, unpoleasant and easy to do with heterosexual sex, if you feel that way inclined.

[andy-hughes]

rov - not surprisingly, since your thinking is clouded by your fear and ignorance, your smoking comparison falls down very quickly.

Smoling is the only legal activity which, when performed as advertised, stands a very good chance of killing the participant.

That hardly equates to the comparison you have used - and please spare us the AIDS argument, that's been debunked many times on here already.

[craft1948]

I just don't understand the need to advertise a person's sexuality. It's like all the gay Pride marches pronouncing how proud you are to be gay............why? I'm heterosexual, I'm not proud to be heterosexual, I just am.

[ummmm]

Heterosexual couples do that as well Rov.

Craft, we don't face attitudes like Rovs about our sexuality.

[naomi24]

There is a definite need to oppose prejudice and to educate people, but having said that, I agree with Craft to an extent. I don't like people advertising their sexuality either - and I don't think Gay organisations always choose the best methods to rally people to their cause.

[cazzz1975]

I think the gay pride march's stem from the years and years of gay people keeping their sexuality hidden and being made to feel ashamed of themselves. maybe it acts as a message to the next generation that its okay to be gay.

[ummmm]

It looks like fun as well.

[craft1948]

But cazzz surely the marches are now obsolete. From my perspective whenever there is a Gay Pride day, or any other event endorsing homosexuality, it seems that they don't want to be considered 'the norm' but as something different and special, which to me defeats the object of being considered just another ordinary man or woman.

[naomi24]

^^ Can't disagree. My thoughts exactly.