‘Ex-Gay’ Myth Hits Caribbean: Newspaper Ad Declares “Truth” About Gays

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.care2.com/causes/ex-gay-myth-hits-caribbean.html

The ‘ex-gay’ religious movement has expanded beyond its American origins throughout the world.

Despite its evident shrinking in the US, with reports that the oldest ex-gay group Exodus International is on the verge of “social and financial oblivion” and widespread mockery of ‘therapy’ operators like Michele Bachmann’s husband, in the rest of the world it is growing.

Reports emerged in October of over 200 ‘ex gay clinics’ in Ecuador, some of which activists had managed to get closed after the torture they were practicing was exposed. It also emerged that the Hong Kong government is paying for so-called Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy (SOCT) for LGBT citizens.

In Uganda, it is US ‘conversion therapy’ Christianist evangelists who have been behind those pushing the ‘Kill the Gays’ bill. Because of them, the idea that ‘the gay’ can be cured is widely believed throughout Africa.

Now the same lies pushed by the same American ‘ex-gay’ propagandists are finding an audience in the Caribbean.

A full page ad published in the leading Trinidad newspaper Sunday Express titled ‘What you should know about homosexuality’ has outraged local activists. They are calling for any further ads to be blocked by local media standards bodies.




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[iris27]

1. Well, crap.

They are already virulently and violently anti-gay in so many areas of the Caribbean...this is the last thing they need down there.

[uriel1972]

2. Well I guess

I won't be going to Trinidad in a hurry.