The BBC compares prayer for same-sex attraction with rape
by Carys Moseley, Christian Concern:
The BBC continues to peddle vicious disinformation about ‘conversion therapy’ for same-sex attraction. This is despite the fact that even those pushing hardest for ‘conversion therapy’ bans have backtracked on this claim when we challenged them. The BBC should follow suit.
‘Group prayer’ equated with ‘corrective rape’
This Tuesday the BBC News website’s Family & Education section published a story about a man who is demanding an apology from Birmingham University for giving him electric shock treatment for homosexuality over fifty years ago. As a piece of historical interest this is not a problem. The problem is that the reporter, Ben Hunte, the BBC News LGBT Correspondent, saw fit to add a whole section linking this to the government’s plan to ban ‘conversion therapy’. Never mind that the term was not used by psychiatrist administering electric shock treatments, nor that they themselves were dismissive of talking therapy and often irreligious.
The section on ‘conversion therapy’ says this:
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