The big LGBT story today is the petition that more than 70,000 people have signed at Change.org calling on TLC television network to cancel its upcoming special "My Husband's Not Gay." The program is set to air on January 11th that follows 4 Mormon men who are in denial of their sexual orientation because their faith is not accepting of gay people who live their lives openly. Josh Sanders who launched the petition stated,
“As a gay Christian man who’s seen first hand how this message can harm people, I am calling on TLC to cancel “My Husband’s Not Gay” & to stop telling America that LGBT people should lie to themselves & to their faith communities about who they are & who they love.” Sanders was once subjected to so-called “reparative therapy" the harmful practice that aims to "turn" gay people straight & which nearly every major medical authority has denounced as both dangerous & ineffective added, "I was promised I could change & told that I should 'pray the gay away. In the end, the only thing that this so-called 'therapy' did was stoke a growing despair that maybe my life wasn't worth living." Sarah Kate Ellis President & CEO of GLAAD concluded, “This show is downright irresponsible. No one can change who they love & more importantly, no one should have to. By investing in this dangerous programming, TLC is putting countless young LGBT people in harm’s way.”
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Thanks for covering this and giving people an opportunity to comment and give their opinion about this "10 steps backward" type of TV programming
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