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Evening Standard runs ad for pray away the gay group

on May 26, 2017 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

The Evening Standard has been criticised by online commenters for running an ad from a group that advocates ‘pray away the gay’ therapies.

On Wednesday morning, the print edition of the Evening Standard ran the ad for a church group promising a day of “healing, salvation, deliverance, yoke breaking” and more at the ExCeL in London on Saturday.

The ad, first spotted by Buzzfeed News, promoted the Women’s Deliverance Programme, overseen by founder Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, a published author with numerous books looking to touch down with people “caught in the bondage” of “homosexuality, lesbianism, masturbation, prostitution”.

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Source: The Drum