UK: Belfast church's anti-gay ad banned

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UK: Belfast church's anti-gay ad banned

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/03/asa-belfast-church-ad
Mark Sweney
12/3/2008

A press campaign with the headline "The word of God against Sodomy" run by a church and timed to spark a protest against Belfast's Gay Pride parade has been banned for being offensive.

The full-page press ad, which appeared in the Belfast Newsletter, was run by the Sandown Free Presbyterian Church and claimed that the previous year's Gay Pride parade in the city had included a banner stating "Jesus is a ->-bleeped-<-" and that the church was "obliged under God to publicly challenge the vices of this generation".