Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s willingness to redefine words to avoid political inconvenience was exposed on July 30, following a remarkable High Court judgment involving the banning of a London bus ad.
In a contrived and punitive judgment, Justice Lang reduced to differences in ‘semantics’ Mayor Boris Johnson’s intervention to halt the 2012 London Bus Campaign that Core Issues Trust, together with Anglican Mainstream, mounted to counter an ongoing Stonewall campaign.
The Core Issues Trust bus ad (‘Not Gay. Post Gay. Ex Gay and proud. Get over it!’) was a direct response to an ad run by LGBT lobby group Stonewall at the time, which read ‘Some people are gay. Get over it!’.
