BBC Equated Conversion Therapy And Group Prayer with Corrective Rape

Case information
Incident date
Country
United Kingdom
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Morals
Societal Sphere
  • Media
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Defamation
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)
  • Negative Stereotyping
Place of Incident
  • Internet
Bias Indicators
  • Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti
Reported to Police
  • No
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown
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The section of Family & Education on the BBC News website perpetuated misinformation about `conversion therapy‘ for same sex-attraction. The BBC News LGBT Correspondent, Ben Hunte, says, “While some violent practices which may be classed as conversion therapy, such as ‘corrective rape’, are already covered by existing criminal offences, many religious practices, such as ‘group prayer”, are not.”

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