SAN ANTONIO, TX — Whenever Focus on the Family is unhappy, it’s a good bet that truth, justice and genuine love have won out. Thanks to the ethical thinking of the staff of the San Antonio News-Express a conference promoting the widely debunked so-called “reparative therapy” for gays will find it a bit more difficult to make money from quack science and homosexual self-loathing.According to Jennifer Mesko, writing for CitizenLink.org, the newspaper has refused to place an ad for Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” conference, set to convert uncomfortable homosexuals to heterosexuality – or at least celibacy – this Saturday.
Mesko claims that the newspaper deemed “the testimony of Jeff Johnson, who used to identify as homosexual but no longer does” as being “offensive” and therefore inappropriate for the News-Express.
Unsurprisingly, Focus on the Family is furious. After all, as Gary Schneeberger, vice president of media relations for the group’s Family Action department “There are a number of ads in the Express-News that are offensive not only to Christians but to families.”
Presumably speaking for all families in the San Antonio area, Schneeberger insisted that the existence of “Ads for strip clubs and lingerie models, to name just two” are an affront to decent citizens.
Guilt tripping those with same-sex attractions, on the other hand, is apparently precisely the kind of thing that Schneeberger believes Texas families and the media should support.
