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should a place that says it can 'cure' gays be allowed to advertise?

soapy [Edit] [Delete] 71 replies 15:48 February 27th, 2013

or will it be banned in a victory for illiberal liberalism

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100204543/our-new-intolerance-means-we-must-watch-our-words-and-our-backs-lest-we-break-the-liberals-illiberal-code/

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Oh no, not free speech again.

I fucking hate that thing.

DanielKelly | 27 Feb '13, 15:49 | X | ^ This | Reply

brusma and Cementimental this'd this
Delingpole?

*checks*
Oh. Yeah that'll work too.

fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 15:49 | X | ^ This | Reply

joeymahone this'd this
No.

It's not a free speech issue, rather one of false advertising claims.

_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 27 Feb '13, 15:51 | X | ^ This | Reply

oojimaflop this'd this
- How do you work that one out, spaceman?
  
  GayGuevara @_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 27 Feb '13, 16:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - homosexuality can't be 'cured'
    
    as it's not a disease. I think it was actually registered as one in America though, and maybe still is distressingly enough.
    
    _TheBeautifulOnes_ @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 16:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Proven scientific evidence disagrees with your viewpoint.
      
      GayGuevara @_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 27 Feb '13, 16:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - look, none of us are going to tell Meowington
        
        it'll all be fine
        
        fidel_catstro @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 16:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        GayGuevara and Cementimental this'd this
      - He DIDN'T!
        
        Oh he did. He did.
        
        He's gone there guys! He's totally gone there!!!
        
        GetOffMyLawn @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 16:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - citation needed
        
        soapy @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 16:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - but diseases are things which are bad for your body ;-)
        
        _TheBeautifulOnes_ @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 16:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - I think it was once classified as a mental disorder in the DSM
      
      but has since been declared as not being so (in one of the later revisions). I'm quite sure that's a worldwide thing, too.
      
      mute-branches @_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 27 Feb '13, 18:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
- How is
  
  "Not gay! Post-gay, ex-gay and proud. Get over it!" a false advertising claim?
  
  Raanraals @_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 27 Feb '13, 17:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - 'cause buses can't be gay, duh.
    
    DaddyorChips @Raanraals | 27 Feb '13, 17:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - http://i.imgur.com/swNgh.png
      
      japes @DaddyorChips | 27 Feb '13, 17:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - the article is so sloppily written that I'm not sure what's on the actual poster
    
    this was the text from the ad that Boris veto'd; it's totally unclear if it's the same ad that's being ruled on, or something completely different.
    
    fidel_catstro @Raanraals | 27 Feb '13, 17:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - The article basically reads like this:
      
      Waaaaaaaahhhhh it's so unfaaaaiiirrrrrr.
      
      badmanreturns @fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 17:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - It isn't.
    
    But it's still false advertising as it promotes an organisation with impossible false aims.
    
    _TheBeautifulOnes_ @Raanraals | 27 Feb '13, 17:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - In your view.
      
      GayGuevara @_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 27 Feb '13, 17:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - link the science, then.
        
        _TheBeautifulOnes_ @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 17:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
THIS IS THE GUARDIANS FAULT.

If they hadn't started that fucking atheism campaign.

Ichor | 27 Feb '13, 15:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
MARTINGALE

cat_race | 27 Feb '13, 15:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
replies aren't appearing

_TheBeautifulOnes_ | 27 Feb '13, 15:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
"Watch... our backs"?

Is this a gay joke?

poptimusgrime | 27 Feb '13, 15:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I don't think Odone has a sense of humour.
  
  Kitchmo @poptimusgrime | 27 Feb '13, 15:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
I like how the only example used

is of that well known left-wing liberal Boris Johnson stopping a particular campaign.

colinzealuk | 27 Feb '13, 15:56 | X | ^ This | Reply

DanielKelly this'd this
Never read the comments

fucksake

fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 15:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Why?
  
  Everyone knows the comments are by far the best thing on any news article
  
  urbanfox @fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 15:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  soapy this'd this
- pretty sure someone suggested one of the causes of homosexuality is
  
  peer pressure :-DDDDD
  
  wewerewerewolvesonce @fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 16:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - *queer pressure
    
    _TheBeautifulOnes_ @wewerewerewolvesonce | 27 Feb '13, 16:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
depends what they're curing gays of

if it's like tb or something i don't see the problem

anal_schwarzenegger | 27 Feb '13, 15:59 | X | ^ This | Reply

andyvine this'd this
- :D
  
  s_p_g @anal_schwarzenegger | 27 Feb '13, 16:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  japes this'd this
Amazing slippery sloping going on here too

a leap downhill with every paragraph

fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 16:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GzUh4PJVx8

DaddyorChips | 27 Feb '13, 16:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
only if it actually can cure gays

Body_In_The_Thames | 27 Feb '13, 16:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
you can cure any meat

Balonz | 27 Feb '13, 16:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
Can you cure paedophilia?

Because if society says you can then that's a sexuality. So like, they can't say you can with one and not another. Or something.

moker | 27 Feb '13, 16:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
- this is nonsensical on a number of levels
  
  anal_schwarzenegger @moker | 27 Feb '13, 16:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
  - I think that was on purpose
    
    fidel_catstro @anal_schwarzenegger | 27 Feb '13, 16:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - i can't really tell any more
      
      with moker
      
      anal_schwarzenegger @fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 16:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Some peopel are born liking the opposite sex
        
        Some people are born liking the same sex
        Some people are born liking children
        Some people are born liking animals
        
        They're all different sexualities. I'm not talking about consent or acts, I'm talking about desiiiiiiiiiire as U2 sang about.
        
        moker @anal_schwarzenegger | 27 Feb '13, 16:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        fuck_this_band this'd this
        
        bono's a paedo?
        
        japes @moker | 27 Feb '13, 17:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Achtung Baby/Toddler/Pre-pubescent
        
        DaddyorChips @japes | 27 Feb '13, 18:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - bit of a halfhearted effort, isn't it
    
    tiramisu @anal_schwarzenegger | 27 Feb '13, 16:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Are you born a paedo, or do you become one?
  
  Genuine question.
  
  GayGuevara @moker | 27 Feb '13, 16:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Maybe everyone is as a child but most people grow out of it.
    
    DaddyorChips @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 16:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
Other gays cure me of gayness

99% of them are repulsive.

twentynine | 27 Feb '13, 16:40 | X | ^ This | Reply

_TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
yeah, yeah take that

@rickygervais

You are person and loved by fundamentalist Christians from the moment you are conceived to the moment you come out as gay.

soapy | 27 Feb '13, 16:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
Liberals: She's Odone you, there.

TheoGB | 27 Feb '13, 16:41 | X | ^ This | Reply

oojimaflop and SarcasticFringehead this'd this
I'm loving her frantic attempts to construct a liberal straw man

yes Odone banning ex gay advertisment is JUST like life in Stalin's USSR.

wewerewerewolvesonce | 27 Feb '13, 16:45 | X | ^ This | Reply

Gorkys_Forever this'd this
- yeah that famous liberal Stalin
  
  Gorkys_Forever @wewerewerewolvesonce | 27 Feb '13, 17:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
Oh those poor Christians, not being allowed to go around saying hateful nonsense whenever they please

Truly one of the great tragedies of our times :'(((

badmanreturns | 27 Feb '13, 16:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

oojimaflop and Gorkys_Forever this'd this
- how typically illiberal of you
  
  soapy @badmanreturns | 27 Feb '13, 16:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Do you listen to rap music?
  
  GayGuevara @badmanreturns | 27 Feb '13, 17:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - No I listen exclusively to harsh noise
    
    badmanreturns @GayGuevara | 27 Feb '13, 17:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Good man.
      
      GayGuevara @badmanreturns | 27 Feb '13, 17:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - have you heard daydream nation?
      
      japes @badmanreturns | 27 Feb '13, 17:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
      
      DaddyorChips, GayGuevara, Ichor, badmanreturns, fuck_this_band, and furio this'd this
      - puh-lease, that's pop music man
        
        evol is what he wants
        
        fuck_this_band @japes | 27 Feb '13, 18:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Fuck it, he should just buy Goo and get into the brutal shit straight away.
        
        DaddyorChips @fuck_this_band | 27 Feb '13, 18:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
if they can, sure

Jordan_229_2 | 27 Feb '13, 17:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
morrissey says that more gays

would = an end to war

soapy | 27 Feb '13, 17:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
- does he know that gay people are allowed to join the military now
  
  anal_schwarzenegger @soapy | 27 Feb '13, 17:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
maybe they're just offering to cover them in salt

japes | 27 Feb '13, 17:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
- they're rubbing salt in their wounds alright
  
  metaphorical wounds
  
  of a historically oppressed and marginalised group
  
  ....
  
  anal_schwarzenegger @japes | 27 Feb '13, 17:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - fucking hell
    
    this is easily the worst thing I've ever posted
    
    anal_schwarzenegger @anal_schwarzenegger | 27 Feb '13, 17:45 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - if only
      
      japes @anal_schwarzenegger | 27 Feb '13, 17:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
      
      anal_schwarzenegger this'd this
      - easily the worst thing I've posted in the last 30 minutes
        
        maybe
        
        anal_schwarzenegger @japes | 27 Feb '13, 18:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
Hospitals are allowed to advertise, no?

Raanraals | 27 Feb '13, 17:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
If the thing being offered is legal

they probably should be allowed to advertise it- no matter how much it turns my stomach

oojimaflop | 27 Feb '13, 17:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
until we know for a fact that homosexuality can't be 'cured'...

it's probably hypocritical of us to say.

forzaborza | 27 Feb '13, 17:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
- similarly
  
  you'd better not get in the way of my new business of curing cancer by poking people in the eye with a carrot
  
  fidel_catstro @forzaborza | 27 Feb '13, 17:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - At least you SAY it'll be a "carrot".
    
    DaddyorChips @fidel_catstro | 27 Feb '13, 17:42 | X | ^ This | Reply

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