London’s Mayor Boris Johnson has stepped in to stop an advertising campaign which wanted to promote the claim that gay people can be “cured”. The Guardian reports Johnson ordered his transport chiefs to pull the adverts booked by two conservative Anglican groups following outrage among gay campaigners and politicians saying that they were homophobic. The adverts were booked on behalf of the Core Issues Trust whose leader, Mike Davidson, believes "homoerotic behaviour is sinful". His charity funds "reparative therapy" for gay Christians, which it claims can "develop their heterosexual potential". Johnson has told the Guardian: "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 here
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First published: Friday, 13th April 2012 - 11:29am