Thu Apr 12, 2012, 01:48 PM
Anti-gay adverts on London buses blocked by Boris Johnson
Source: The Guardian
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." Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/anti-gay-adverts-boris-johnson 
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 Anti-gay adverts on London buses blocked by Boris Johnson (Original post) |
alp227 | Apr 2012 | OP |
| qb | Apr 2012 | #1 | |
| alp227 | Apr 2012 | #2 | |
| Lydia Leftcoast | Apr 2012 | #3 | |
| AlbertCat | Apr 2012 | #4 | |
| starroute | Apr 2012 | #6 | |
| SamG | Apr 2012 | #5 |
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 01:51 PM
1. Excellent news! Too bad the US doesn't have conservatives like Boris Johnson.
Response to qb (Reply #1)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:13 PM
2. Remember the freakout 2 years ago over GOProud,
Response to qb (Reply #1)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:16 PM
3. British Conservatives can be insufferable pigs when it comes to economic issues
Response to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #3)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 02:41 PM
AlbertCat (10,449 posts)
4. Most of the British Puritans emigrated to America
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Response to AlbertCat (Reply #4)
Thu Apr 12, 2012, 03:32 PM
starroute (10,385 posts)
6. The British Puritans who came to America settled in New England
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Which is now the most solidly same-sex-marriage-friendly part of the country.
The Puritans may have been narrow-minded about matters of religious doctrine -- though not as much as people think -- but they were never a bunch of sex-obsessed bigots like today's conservatives. They valued learning and education and within a couple of generations were were eagerly adopting the new ideals of the 18th century Enlightenment. They were also solidly middle-class, without the social divide between wealthy landowners and indentured servants that took root in the South and persists down there in today's norms of exaggerated respect for civil and religious authority. So don't blame the Puritans. They're the good guys in this story. 
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