From The New Civil Rights Movement:
A Christian group in Australia has forced an advertising company to remove ads promoting HIV awareness and prevention, supposedly in order to protect “young children” from “sexuality…through forced exposure in public.” The ad, above, shows a black and white photo of two men, fully clothed, with a portion of a red package, purportedly a condom, and the words, “Rip & Roll” in the left corner.
“The Australian Christian Lobby has used homophobia dressed up as protecting children to have an important public education campaign removed,” said Paul Martin, Executive Director of Healthy Communities, according to a report in Australia’s Central Telegraph.
“ACL’s State Director for Queensland, Wendy Francis, is calling their campaign to have the ad removed ‘A massive groundswell of people power’ despite only 47 complaints being made,” the Telegraph writes.
“Wendy Francis has previously been criticised and forced to apologise for sending out a homophobic tweet likening gay marriage to ‘legalising child abuse.’ They are now trying have gay people erased from the public sphere,” Martin stated.
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