LGBT News Call for boycott of Spanish department store over sales of anti-gay books

Beware Of You · Jun 17, 2014

Spain's largest department store chain is facing calls for a boycott over the stocking of several books that promote the idea of "curing" homosexuality.

Despite more than year of protests by LGBT groups in Spain, El Corte Inglés has continued to carry the titles I Want to Stop Being Gay, How to Prevent Homosexuality and Gender Confusion in Childhood.

After several failed attempts to talk to the retailer, the political party Izquierda Unida (United Left) is calling on Spaniards to boycott the chain's stores, said Mariano Vilar, who coordinates LGBT issues for the party in Parla, a town in Madrid's metropolitan area.

"I wouldn't even call it a book. I would call it libel. It's something dirty and denigrating," he said. "This type of publication does a lot of harm, more than you can imagine."

He brushed aside any arguments over the right of expression, saying firmly: "They're speaking about homosexuality as if it were a disease." He likened the books to web pages that applaud and encourage terrorism or anorexia. "They shut down web pages like those. Freedom of expression has its limits."
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I thought Spain was meant to be progressive

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Nikky DoUrden · Jun 18, 2014

"freedom of expression" imo is abused in democracy, they should have rules for limiting it for things like that, which hurt and incite, although it won't change ppl opinions at least we all can live in (relative) peace with each other

And bull abusing isn't progressive in my dictionary >.>

Hexagon · Jun 18, 2014

I used to have to buy school uniform from them. They are the most expensive pricks I've ever met. I'd boycott them just for that.

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