"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?

[ll_billym]

Unsurprisingly it was a Christian group that were running this campaign, ironically Christianity is easier to cure than homosexuality but then they probably didn't think of that at the time.

[NOX]

I'd personally rather be gay than Christian...

[ummmm]

I'm with NOX.

[Barmaid]

I'm still lmao at the fact that some thicko bigot thinks it requires or is capable of a "cure".

Am I in a parallel universe? Is this 2012 or 1912?

[Nibble]

Are we sure the bigots don't think it's 2012 b.c.e, (before common empathy), when hatred was de facto for life?

[d9f1c7]

well I'm mildly cheerful does that count?

[EDDIE51]

Sorry, those that think this is suggesting that homosexuality can be cured are ignorant of the meaning of the phase '' Get over it ''
It is saying that you should just accept that some people are Gay and get on with your own life.
There was an identical slogan in support of the right to smoke in public when the smoking ban was being discussed. It had a photo of a large and agressive looking man with the slogan '' I smoke , get over it !''
The phase ''get over it'' means to just accept what we are saying/ want and leave us alone.
If the adverts had been promoted by the Catholic Church or an 'anti-gay' organisation I could understand the ban, but it was promoted by 'Stonewall ' a well known, veteran and provocative campaigner for 'Gay Rights'

[LazyGun]

@Eddie

Not sure thats quite right eddie. Latest adverts, the ones banned, did indeed come from a religious group, and did indeed suggest that gayness was a disease to be cured. What they did was to use the tone of a recent Stonewall advert - at least, according to this article...

http://www.rte.ie/new...rom-london-buses.html

[EDDIE51]

The link in the original question shows the Stonewall slogan, with a message that it has been banned.

[Kromovaracun]

As I said in the previous thread,the belief that 'conversion therapy' is a science, or that it consistently works, is quite simply an invalid opinion. It is not supported by any credible shred of evidence, it has a thinly-veiled religious agenda, and it has been discredited about as thoroughly as any quack science. Freedom of speech is all well and good, but don't forget that it serves as a means to an end. Freedom of speech best allows us to root out bad ideas by challenging them. 'Conversion therapy' is one such idea that by any rational criterion has been utterly defeated. So on those grounds I find this decision quite appropriate.

To answer your question, mushroom, I imagine the people behind these adverts believe they are doing some form of greater good work, and therefore don't particularly care about offense. For them, what they're doing is to the benefit of humanity - a delusion which makes them rather immune to any form of scrutiny from others. So I doubt the problem of 'offence' really occurred to them.

[micmak]

I have no problem with gays or any other people who are different. I smoke not a great deal, but when I stand on my own, away from everyone some jerk approaches me to object to my smoking. My answer when I'm pain free is "You came in to my space. I didn't encroach in to yours". When I'm in pain it's F Off.

[ladybirder]

Eddie, under the picture of the Stonewall ad it says "The banned advert was set to mimic Stonewall's campaign."

[sp1814]

mushroom25

And talk about bad timing!!!

http://www.nydailynew...apy-article-1.1060226

Gay people who subject themselves to 'curative therapy' are still gay, but they're suppressing their sexuality.

The Christian Right seem to be equating homosexuality with alcoholism..."take these 12 steps and you will never drink again".

But the mistake is viewing homosexuality as a curable disease.

[weecalf]

Happiness is the cure for most things I would have thought

[Old_Geezer]

And as we know, some things are uncurable, and indeed often don't need to be anyway.

[mightyWBA]

Perhaps they thought it was a pro gay advert...I thought it was an advert for stonewall before I read the article,just like Eddie did.
If I saw it on the side of a bus I'd have never realised it was for a Christian group.

[weecalf]

see boris dont want it on our busses our busses boris

[naomi24]

Someone who used to contribute here once employed the services of an Exorcist in an effort to ‘cure’ his gay friend. Breath-taking ignorance. :o/

[ummmm]

Barmy....

[Booldawg]

but you've only got to watch one episode of 'Glee' and suddenly you're gay again!