RIP AND ROLL IS YANKED AND PULLED

Australia yanks their Rip and Roll HIV prevention campaign all because of Christian complaints.

Can we complain to Oz that they are Christian? Fucking religious bigots BARF! Such hypocrites...

Adshel, the company that provides advertising for Brisbane's bus shelters; Goa Billboards; and the Advertising Standards Bureau were targeted in an orchestrated campaign by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL). Healthy Communities executive director Paul Martin said it was extremely disheartening that Adshel had buckled. "Those of us who have been around fighting HIV in Queensland for a while will remember this kind of reaction from days gone by," he told AAP. "We certainly don't expect it in 2011."

ACL was trying to have gay people "erased from the public sphere", Mr Martin said. "It's an extreme minority of people who are very well organised and are able to launch this kind of action," he said. "The vast majority of Queenslanders support gay and lesbian rights." ACL Queensland director Wendy Francis said she objected to the sexual nature of the ads, not the fact the couple pictured were gay. Ms Francis was last year forced to apologise publicly after a Tweet likening gay marriage to legalising child abuse.

The Advocate reports:

[Australian Christian Lobby] Queensland executive director Wendy Francis said she objected to the sexual nature of the ad, not the gay identity of the men pictured. Last year, she ran for senate as a Family First candidate and was forced to apologize for a tweet that compared granting marriage rights for same-sex couples to allowing child abuse.



via joemygod