Follow-up to yesterday’s Focus – Banned gay bus ad group looks at legal action against TfL; Now a lawsuit against the Mayor over the bus adverts; Some people are religious. Get over it!
Banned gay bus ad group looks at legal action against TfL
A Christian group which had its advertisement pulled from London buses after it was described as anti-gay has said it is considering legal action. Anglican Mainstream has instructed a law firm to look at whether Transport for London (TfL) acted illegally when it scrapped the adverts. It said it wanted to know what happened to its contract with TfL for the ads, which implied people could be “ex-gay”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17706866
Now a lawsuit against the Mayor over the bus adverts
Independent – Christian group to sue Boris Johnson over ‘gay cure’ bus advertisements ..The Christian group behind the recent attempt to place “gay cure” adverts on London buses have instructed lawyers to sue both the…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/christian-group-to-sue-boris-johnson-over-gay-cure-bus-advertisements-7643466.html
Some people are religious. Get over it!
New Statesman – The proposed “ex-gay” bus advert was offensive, but gay Christians face a genuine dilemma.
[…] Johnson told the Guardian that his London was “intolerant of intolerance”. The proposed slogan (“Not gay! Ex-gay, Post-gay and proud. Get over it!”), whatever its intention, was at least open to interpretation as an assertion of crude homophobia, or at least of heteronormative triumphalism. It was intended, however, as a direct riposte to similar-looking advertisements being run by Stonewall with the slogan “Some people are gay. Get over it!” — a campaign that implicitly targets opponents of gay marriage as reactionary bigots unable to come to terms with the modern world.
Some bigots may, indeed, hide behind religion. Yet Stonewall’s slogan, it strikes, me, misses an important point, which is that some people, who are gay, cannot “get over it” that easily. A devout religious believer, who belongs to a tradition that says firmly that homosexuality is wrong, but who feels a strong inclination towards members of the same sex, is faced with an agonising dilemma. Demands to “get over it”, while not directly aimed at such people, can easily come across as insensitive and bullying.
http://newstatesman.com/blogs/religion/2012/04/some-people-are-religious-get-over-it