Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Gay Ad Campaign Stirs Passion in Italy


Is it just me? Or is it true that wherever you find discrimination, you find people who call themselves Christian?

We need an anti-homophobia ad campaign like this in country singer and homophobe John Rich's town. That would be here in Nashville.

ROME (AFP) - An ad campaign to counter discrimination against gays has stirred up passions in Italy, using a poster that shows a newborn with the word "homosexual" written on his wristband.

"Sexual orientation is not a choice," reads the slogan on the poster that was going up all across the central-northern Tuscany region and was published in national newspapers Wednesday.

"Using newborns to make people believe that homosexual impulses are an innate characteristic is dishonest and a disgrace," said Christian Democratic lawmaker Luca Volonte. . .

Italy's main gay rights association ArciGay, for its part, praised the initiative, saying homosexuality is an "unchangeable fact that should be respected."

via Jezebel