Proposed Christian Billboard Ad Rejected

BillyMac · Jan 16, 2004

Ad firm rejects ex-'gay' billboard

Former homosexual seeks to counter media campaign with his own

Posted: January 16, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A billboard company rejected an advertisement submitted by a minister who wants to respond to the recent Massachusetts ruling permitting "gay marriage" by declaring he is a happily married ex-homosexual.

Stephen Bennett, head of a Christian family advocacy group, says his New York director tried to rent a billboard in the state capital, Albany, from the Lamar Advertising Co. of Baton Rouge, La....

...The proposed billboard features a black and white photo of Bennett, his wife Irene and their two children.

It reads: "Wonderful Husband. Loving Father. Former Homosexual. Jesus Christ Changes Lives."...

Bennett said he lived a homosexual lifestyle for 11 years and left it in 1992 after becoming a Christian.

"It never ceases to amaze me how biased and unfair the media really is," he said. "Sharing my story has given thousands of people hope – homosexual men and women who are unhappy with their same-sex attractions."

A recording artist and national speaker, Bennett's Huntington, Conn.-based group, Stephen Bennett Ministries, says it offers help to people who want to "come out" of the homosexual lifestyle.

Bennett also is special issues editor on homosexuality for the American Family Association.

He has produced pro-family billboards for organizations in Massachusetts and around the country.

"I am only one of thousands of men and women who've left our unwanted homosexuality – and have become the real men and women we were created to be," said Bennett. "The reason stories like mine are continually censored is because if homosexual men and women can really change, the 'gay' theory of homosexuality being innate and unchangeable completely crumbles. Their faulty foundation falls apart."...

..."These billboard companies have no problem taking advertising for such offensive material as liquor ads and controversial plays such as The Vagina Monologues," he said. "Yet a Christian billboard they refuse? This is blatant discrimination and bias at its best."...
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Another organization that promotes a Christian alternative to this alternative lifestyle is Exodus International

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