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British Gay Police Association Investigated by Scotland Yard for Anti-Christian Ad
By Hilary White
LONDON, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Scotland Yard is
investigating Britain’s Gay Police Association (GPA) after receiving a
complaint that a newspaper advertisement by the Association incites homosexuals to hate
Christians.
A war of words against traditional Christianity in Britain has moved
into the police force, the BBC reports. The advertisement was taken out
by the GPA during London's Europride event two weeks ago. It accused
Christianity of being the source of most cases of violence against
homosexuals.
The ad featured a photo of a bible next to a pool of blood; the caption
read, “In the name of the father.” The ad’s text read, “In the last 12
months, the GPA has recorded a 74% increase in homophobic incidents,
where the sole or primary motivating factor was the religious belief of
the perpetrator.”
The trouble started when a Christian homosexual policeman who applied
to join the Christian Police Association (CPA) was told that he would
have to give up his homosexual activity. Equating voluntary homosexual
behaviour with race and gender, GPA spokesman, Vic Codling, complained,
“Black or female police officers wouldn't be asked to be ‘less black’
or ‘less female’ in order to join staff associations, so why should gay
or lesbian officers?”
The Christian Police Association’s position paper on homosexuality says
it rejects “homophobia” but refuses to endorse homosexual activity. The
CPA's Executive Director Don Axcell, told BBC News, “(The GPA)
published a vitriolic article in Police Review magazine about
faith-based homophobia. We've been trying to work through conciliation,
but we keep coming up against conflict.”
On his news commentary website, British conservative writer, Iain Dale
posted a retouched version of the GPA ad replacing the Holy Bible with
the Holy Qur’an and a new caption that read, “In the name of Allah.”
Dale wrote, “Can you imagine the outcry which would ensure [sic] if the Gay
Police Association released the above advert, in an attempt to
highlight religious hate crime against gay people?”
Iain Dale points out that the GPA did not mention the specific religion
of the alleged perpetrators and that the ad is merely a club with which
to beat Christianity, a favourite target of gay lobbyists. He
speculates on the ad’s reverse discrimination: “Couldn't you reasonably
think that the advert actually incites gay people to hate Christians?”
Reverend George Hargreaves, who ran as a Scottish Christian Party
Candidate in a recent by-election against a proposed Scottish hate
speech law, was quoted by the BBC, saying the ad was an example of
“Christianophobia.” His complaint spurred Scotland Yard to investigate
the GPA to determine whether their ad constituted a “faith crime” under
Britain’s own hate speech laws.
Dale quotes another commenter who wrote to say the ad constituted a
hate crime, “The GPA would not dare to produce an advertisement that
might be deemed ‘racist’ or offensive to a religious minority. But the
Christians? Well, they’re easy meat, and who cares if any of them are
offended...?”
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