Transport for London Bans Gay Cure Bus Adverts
I put up an article a couple of weeks ago about Stonewall’s adverts on London buses.
I thought there would be some protests and after watching them for nearly three weeks, I haven’t even seen one that has been damaged.
I usually read the Evening Standard and listen to the local news and have seen no reports of any protest either.
But now some gay cure adverts planned by an opposing Christian group, have been banned by Transport for London, as reported here.
I have read about the therapy they are promoting in serious newspapers and magazines and it is not something I believe will work. Therapy, such as that for smoking and nail-biting does work, but only because the person seriously wants to give up. So on the same basis if a person seriously wanted to stop being gay, some simple less agressive therapy might help. There is a serious article in the Guardian, that anybody who believes religious-based methods cure people from being gay should read.
But my biggest issue with the adverts, is that they mimic the ones from Stonewall.
Surely this is an infringement of copyright!
Just imagine the row if Pepsi-Cola copied an advert from Coca-Cola.
The Anonymous Widower 
It is yet another case of some Christians giving the rest of us a bad name. I don’t believe “gayness” is an illness, and I don’t believe it is curable. Worryingly there are in US 12 step groups for people who are gay, aimed at changing them, largely set up by religious groups who think gayness is wrong. Wonder what Dr Bob and Bill W would think about that!
Comment by Liz P | April 13, 2012 |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/scientific-support-anti-gay-campaigners?newsfeed=true
This serious article looks at the evidence used by the gay cure advocates. The evidence is rather dodgy and lacks all of the things, like blind trials, unbiased peer review and random data, that would make it acceptable to anybody with any scientific training.
Comment by AnonW | April 13, 2012 |
The evidence is non-existent from reading that. I have met a very few people who are gay who have also suffered very severe sexual abuse by someone of the opposite gender. BUT that does not mean there is a causal link, neither have any of them changed sexual orientation when they dealt with the psychological issues around that abuse. The other sad thing to me (which won’t be to you) is e number of gay people who have developed a very negative attitude to Christian faith because of the vilification they have suffered at the hands of organisations like these.
Comment by Liz P | April 13, 2012 |
Some of the most persistent people I get, are fringe religious groups who knock at my front door to try to convert me. I also get a few really offensive religious flyers through my door. Incidentally, the first gay couple I met were from San Francisco; one was a doctor treating AIDS patients and the other was an Anglican vicar. They talked a lot of sense and if everybody listened to that doctor, a lot of gayhatred would diminish.
Comment by AnonW | April 13, 2012 |