RTÉ says ‘curing gays’ tweet was taken the wrong way

ewan whose army

It seems whoever runs the RTÉ twitter has made a gaff and released a homophobic a tweet against accepted psychological research that suggests that gay people can be "cured". It was meant to advertise their "God Slot" on Radio 1.

RTÉ HAS SAID that a tweet from one of their programmes that provoked a backlash on Twitter was simply poorly worded.
The tweet, which has since been deleted, was attempting to promote this Friday’s edition of the Radio One show The God Slot.
It asked whether or not curing gay people was possible.

You would think the Catholic Church would have more important things to put not that to be honest, Syria, CAR violence etc. but apparently curing gays is more important. I mean really.

http://www.thejournal.ie/god-slot-defends-tweets-1268424-Jan2014/

Balaclava1991

What other possible way could "curing gays" be taken?

It doesn't explain that the segment is about a journalist meeting so-called gay converters and therefore is immediately assumed to be a gay slur.

Anyway they have generated the publicity they wanted and no doubt there will a much bigger audience.

Tombo2001

By not holding their hands up and taking a massive 'mea culpa', they have made things considerably worse for themselves........

(and that is 100% consistent with the behaviour of organised religion in this country over the past thirty years).

diddlybit

Whoever was in charge of the Twitter account replied to criticism by stating:

Listen to the show before making judgements, or can questions not be posed in this age of facism masquerading as liberalism?

Suffice to say, this tweet was also deleted.

ewan whose army

diddlybit wrote: »

Whoever was in charge of the Twitter account replied to criticism by stating:



Suffice to say, this tweet was also deleted.

Its a bit of a irony

diddlybit

ewan whose army wrote: »

Its a bit of a irony

Someone replied to that statemnet much better than I could have ever.

Facists locked up gays in concentration camps but sure use some hyperbolic misappropriation, only digging your hole deeper

http://radiotoday.ie/2014/01/rte-says-sorry-for-the-god-slot-gay-tweet/

FiachDubh

In all honesty the tweet wasn't that bad, and the show debunked the whole "pray away the gay thing", despite the program being named being named "The God slot". If I was the person on the RTE twitter account, I wouldn't have deleted nor apologised for the original tweet.

If you want to find hate you will.

ewan whose army

FiachDubh wrote: »

In all honesty the tweet wasn't that bad, and the show debunked the whole "pray away the gay thing", despite the program being named being named "The God slot". If I was the person on the RTE twitter account, I wouldn't have deleted nor apologised for the original tweet.

If you want to find hate you will.

ITs not very well named, the "God Slot" sounds like some priest or something going about something he finds immoral like its 1745

FiachDubh

ewan whose army wrote: »

ITs not very well named, the "God Slot" sounds like some priest or something going about something he finds immoral like its 1745

I'd say its very well named, If its dealing with things like the issue at hand regularly. I might give it a poke sometime, never heard of it until your thread.

Shakti

It's almost like RTÉ are controlled by the Iona Institute and the conservative catholic "journalists" who support them....... oh wait hang on.

Aard

Can't we all just laugh at the name "The God Slot" and forget about it? The initial tweet was fairly innocuous.

J_E

Shakti wrote: »

It's almost like RTÉ are controlled by the Iona Institute and the conservative catholic "journalists" who support them....... oh wait hang on.

Not at all...RTE are rather liberal.

I listened to the show, the actual part where they talk about it is less than 8-10 mins long, so really they just flung it around insensitively to get the viewers when it wasn't even the main feature.

face1990

ewan whose army wrote: »

... released a homophobic a tweet against accepted psychological research that suggests that gay people can be "cured".

It wasn't homophobic though. They weren't suggesting gay people can be cured (the tweet was just the question, with no opinion expressed) and the programme refuted the idea that it can be cured.

The later responses on twitter were handled very poorly, granted.

I have to wonder, if God wasn't in the title of the show, would people have been so quick to shout 'homophobia'.
All in all it's a complete mountain out of a molehill that actually made me feel embarrassed to be gay.

Shakti

Cydoniac wrote: »

Not at all...RTE are rather liberal.

I listened to the show, the actual part where they talk about it is less than 8-10 mins long, so really they just flung it around insensitively to get the viewers when it wasn't even the main feature.

In what way are they liberal?

face1990

The original tweet was very badly written. Even something as simple as putting quotation marks around the word "cured" would've made clear that they didn't actually believe that homosexuality was akin to a disease that needed curing. A simple "Woops, apologies for the poor wording of that last tweet" was all that was needed and this would've died down.

Instead the reply was "fascism masquerading as liberalism" or some such nonsense. THAT tweet was much more sinister than the original one imo. Whoever wrote that should be pulled up on it.

face1990 wrote: »

I have to wonder, if God wasn't in the title of the show, would people have been so quick to shout 'homophobia'.

I'm willing to bet yes. This wasn't some big anti-Catholic conspiracy or anything, just a message to our national broadcaster that they need to be more careful with their wording (and who they let run their Twitter a/c)

All in all it's a complete mountain out of a molehill that actually made me feel embarrassed to be gay.

Lol. And you're moaning about other people over-reacting? :rolleyes:

diddlybit

Aard wrote: »

Can't we all just laugh at the name "The God Slot" and forget about it?

I never thought about the name like, my mind id filled with extremely bizarre images now. :eek:

Honestly, they could have articulated themselves better. The tweet suggests that gays can or should be cured. There were many other ways to promote a show on the ungay movement without being so inflammatory.

ewan whose army

diddlybit wrote: »

I never thought about the name like, my mind id filled with extremely bizarre images now. :eek:

Honestly, they could have articulated themselves better. The tweet suggests that gays can or should be cured. There were many other ways to promote a show on the ungay movement without being so inflammatory.

Why else do you think people yell Oh God when they orgasm?

diddlybit

ewan whose army wrote: »

Why else do you think people yell Oh God when they orgasm?

This is next week's topic for the show. Much more interesting