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Thread #144811   Message #3348730
Posted By: Bill D
09-May-12 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: A Sad Day in North Carolina
Subject: RE: BS: A Sad Day in North Carolina
BTW... I believe that Ake is incensed at public ads on buses and the like IN THE UK which he calls "promoting" homosexuality. One can argue whether they do 'promote', or merely are demands to be left alone.
I personally doubt that such ads, whatever one thinks of them, would induce anyone to become gay, just as quoting 'health statistics' is not likely to cause anyone to NOT be gay. Those who ARE gay have certainly seen the warnings about proper precautions.

As I told him, I have not seen any such ads here in the US. (I live in the Greater Washington DC metro area, where there are many, many gay & lesbian citizens living in relative harmony. There are always folks who condemn the lifestyle of others, but at least where I live there seems to be a general truce on the matter.)