Watchdog condemns 'gay ad'
Ad watchdog criticises lobbying group over gay advert
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Wednesday, 06, Feb 2008 09:05
An advert for a Christian lobbying group has been criticised by the UK's advertising watchdog for showing a family with the slogan "Gay aim: abolish the family".
The mobile poster for the Christian Congress for Traditional Values (CCTV) showed a family consisting of a man, a woman and a young son and daughter, with the caption.
The group claimed that "the campaigners who sought same-sex marriage did not do so simply to achieve the same domestic situation that was available to heterosexuals but also because they aimed to redefine and abolish the traditional family."
CCTV referred to the 1971 Gay Liberation Front Manifesto documents which described the traditional family unit (husband, wife and children) as working against homosexuality, and which stated: "We must aim at the abolition of the family."
But the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said that the Gay Liberation Front was a radical gay group which disbanded nearly 30 years ago and the claim in the ad did not reflect mainstream campaigns by the gay community.
The advertising watchdog told the group to ensure future campaigns were not presented in a way that could cause serious offence or which might lead to antisocial behaviour.
The CCTV lobbies for "traditional family lifestyles" and was formed in the aftermath of the controversial broadcast of Jerry Springer - The Opera stage show on BBC2.