The group Queensland Association of Healthy Communities had launched advertising encouraging the use of condoms to prevent the chance of HIV infection. This is the poster.
In her press release, Wendy Francis described this hug as an "act of foreplay" and orchestrated a campaign for it to be removed (alledgedly for depicting a "sexual act"). As far as thinly-disguised anti-homosexual agendas go, i'm not sure i've seen thinner.
The ridiculousness of the charade was best summmed up when this publicity photo of Wendy's appeared on facebook, with a caption satirically asking how Wendy could display such sexual images in front of her own children - there are people hugging!!
One of the two men in the ad organised a facebook event for people to join to object to the homophobia. Even as i write this, it has gone from 55,000 to 71,000 people.
The sad thing is reading some of the posts on the wall of the event. So many people (for whom this is their main experience of what Christians think) are expressing their disappointment (to put it mildly) with Wendy's actions and attitude.
If we ever needed proof of David Kinnaman's unChristian theory, here it is. Thousands of people who see this unChristlike attitude as being representative of Christianity, and hating every bit of it.
(And probably more than a few Christians who are just angry that the faith they sincerely follow is tarnished by the actions of a few followers of the unChristian faith)
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ps. the ad company has now changed it's mind and is putting the ads back up. Coverage by Herald Sun, Triple J, Brisbane Times, ABC news
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As it turns out, the ACL have revised the online version of the press release, and left out the phrases i quoted.
I promise i did read the phrases :)
If you wish to check, they are in some of the coverage i have linked to. Also, one of the phrases is referred to in the comments at the bottom of the media release itself (even though the actual phrase has since been editted out).
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