guardian.co.uk,
Hélène Mulholland, Thursday 12 April 2012
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| The ad, backed by the Core Issues Trust, which stated: 'Not gay! Ex-gay, post-gay and proud. Get over it!' |
Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor, has pulled an "offensive" Christian
campaign advertising "gay conversion" which was due to appear on London's buses next week.
Revelations
that adverts asserting the power of therapy to change the sexual orientation of
gay people were due to be driven around the capital came as Johnson, who is
seeking re-election in May, was due to appear at a mayoral hustings organised
by the gay campaigning group Stonewall on Saturday.
The mayor
immediately put the wheels in motion to halt the campaign after being alerted
to the plans by the Guardian, and made clear that such advertising had no place
in a tolerant city.
A clearly
angered Johnson said: "London is one of the most tolerant cities in the
world and intolerant of intolerance. It is clearly offensive to suggest that
being gay is an illness that someone recovers from and I am not prepared to
have that suggestion driven around London on our buses."
Transport
for London (TfL) subcontracts advertising for London's buses to the advertising
agency CBSO, who ran the advert past the Advertising Standards Authority,
according to one of Johnson's aides.
The ASA
said the advert "does not infringe any advertising rules in the UK".
Johnson
used his discretion as chair of TfL to instruct the transport body to ditch the
advertising campaign which was due to appear on 25 buses driving around the
capital next week.
The full-length
advert was due to appear on five different routes in the capital over a
two-week period. It is backed by the Core Issues Trust whose leader, Mike
Davidson, believes "homoerotic behaviour is sinful". His charity
funds "reparative therapy" for gay Christians who believe that they
have homosexual feelings but want to become straight. The campaign is also
backed by Anglican Mainstream, an worldwide orthodox Anglican group whose
supporters have equated homosexuality with alcoholism.
The advert
was due to say: "Not gay! Ex-gay, post-gay and proud. Get over it!"
Post-gay and ex-gay are terms used by some Christians and some psychotherapists
and psychiatrists to refer to homosexual people who have undergone spiritual or
pastoral therapy and, according to an Anglican Mainstream definition, have
"now left a homosexual lifestyle [and experienced] an increased emotional
and sexual attraction to the opposite biological gender and possibly a
reduction in or loss of same-sex attraction."
After the
mayor's decision to block the ad Davidson told the Press Association: "I
didn't realise censorship was in place.
"We
went through the correct channels and we were encouraged by the bus company to
go through their procedures. They OKed it and now it has been pulled."
Brian Paddick,
the Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, who is gay, said: "From personal
experience as a gay Christian, I can tell you that it's much better to be out
than in. We should be celebrating the diversity for which London is known, not
denigrating it.
"As
mayor I want to make London a place that is welcoming to all people, including
Christians."
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