Anti-gay London bus advertising campaign pulled by TfL
The advert from religious groups Core Issues Trust and Anglican Mainstream states: "Not gay! Ex-gay, post-gay and proud. Get over it!"
The message is styled in the recognisable format of previous campaigns run by Stonewall, the LGBT charity who launched the "Some people are gay. Get over it!" slogan in 2007.
One user on our Twitter feed had this to say:
@digitalspy I should jolly well think so! What were @TfLofficial thinking? Tut tut.
I absolutely agree with them! The ad campaign was expected to start next week.
@TfLofficial We don’t believe these ads reflect TfL’s commitment to a tolerant and inclusive London
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Both parties should get over themselves.
As opposed to the high standards of intellectual discourse shown by all the other advertising that appears on buses?
I mean anyone that is anti gay are just going to get enraged by it, it is hardly doing much good to try and reason with people. What is it they were wanting to do? wind people up or try and reason and change opinions?
Same goes for the fools countering the advert... way to go at getting the opposite reaction to what you are after.
Pah. I'M so scary I had only just looked up the phone number when they pulled it.
I think it is a great shame that the advert wasn't quietly refused at a much earlier stage. Problem now is, that instead of getting publicity on 5 London bus routes they have free national publicity instead.
But the other ads are trying to persuade people to buy something.
The two ads under discussion were both a form of taunting. It's not the same thing at all. But Poster Teddybear is right - national publicity is the result of the withdrawal of the ad. And people will be asking why the first ad was allowed and the second not since one is no better than the other.
Perhaps you should.
Great to see.
However, that said I think both sides are silly and am getting a little bored with these 'advertisements' which are just shoving views/opions/stances down peoples throats.
If you take out the offense it will cause, you're still left with the issue of truth in advertising. Gay isn't a disease and there isn't a cure.
The Christians are lying!!!!! :eek:
That only wins cos I went to the website, for fear that if they heard the power of my rage the West Midlands would 'splode.... oh wait.
because their might be.
I would imagine people would ask "What's the point" including this straight person.
People are already 'over' people being straight since the dawn of time.
Did you really need that explained to you?
It got changed to "probably".
"Some people are Muslim, get over it"
I wonder how that would go down?
Some people are ignorant and proud of it. Get over it....
"We can time travel. You got over it."
:D:cool: