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Will The Pink Agenda be the first book banned in the New SA?
Tuesday, 22 January 2002
The Film and Publications Board (FPB) is currently reviewing Africa Christian Africa’s newly released book, after the FPB received complaints from homosexual organisations against “The Pink Agenda – Sexual Revolution and the Ruin of the Family.” If the book were banned, it would be the first non-porn book banned since 1994. This follows accusations by the militant homosexual activist organisation, The Gay and Lesbian Equality Project, that the book “instils hatred and prejudice” that they believe it is unsuitable reading “for young minds that are still being formed” and that it is “the worst homophobic hate speech ever published in South Africa”!
A FPB official confirmed today that the Board will hold a hearing on the book this Friday morning, 25 January. The book publishers, Christian Liberty Books, are invited to put their case, in defence of the book, to the Board at 10 am. The complaints are that the book contravenes the “prejudice” and “hate speech” clauses in the Film and Publications Act.
Co-author Christine Mc Cafferty says that this attempt by The Equality Project to ban the book is typical of the intolerance of homosexual activism worldwide. “Our book shows how homosexual activists’ constantly attempt to ban and censor anything that disagrees with their view on homosexuality or anyone who attempts to stop the promotion of homosexuality in society. When they call for “freedom”, it is only “freedom for their own agenda.”
Co-author Peter Hammond called on Christians to please pray that freedom of speech will be protected in South Africa. He said, “It would be a scandalous irony if all types of obscenity are protected, but genuine research and academic endeavour is banned. Pray that we will be able to continue to distribute the book widely and will to get the truth about the radical homosexual agenda out.”
PRAYER ACTION: Please pray for the outcome of the Film and Publications Board hearing into The Pink Agenda and against attempts by homosexual activists to ban the book and so stifle the truth about homosexuality being exposed. Pray about the complaint ACA has made as regards the Mail and Guardian’s poor and unethical journalism to the press ombudsman.
For more information, please call Jeanine McGill or Christine Mc Cafferty on 021 689 4481. To order your copy of the book (R58 per copy) before there is any possibility of a ban on distribution, please contact Christian Liberty Books at 021 689 7478.
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