The Jehovah’s Witnesses cartoon infuriating LGBT groups

by Ivano Abbadessa - 2016.05.05

“My child, gay couples will not go to heaven.” This, in a nutshell, is the message of a cartoon in English published by the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation. It has infuriated LGBT rights activists on the basis that it is merely a way of instilling homophobia in children’s minds. The film features a little girl who asks her mother to explain a drawing made by a school friend that depicts a family with two mothers. At this point the mother starts to quote various Bible verses to explain to her daughter that marriage is only between man and woman. Telling the child that people can change, the mother says: “There are things that need to be left behind.” The reply from LGBT associations has been firm. “The presentation of the carton is sweet, but the message is bitter,” said Philip Tijsma, a Dutch gay activist because “you can't choose to become homosexual or heterosexual.”



