two associations file a complaint against a Catholic website for “inciting LGBTphobic violence”

The Mousse and Stop Homophobie associations filed a complaint on Friday December 17 against Le Salon Beige for “incitement to LGBTphobic violence”, they announce in a press release. Le Salon Beige, a Catholic website, is accused in a recent article of inciting the practice of “conversion therapies” on the “inverted people” so that they find “normal behavior”.

According to the two associations which lodge a complaint, since 2005, this site has published some 2,044 articles concerning LGBT people. “These articles are systematically hostile to LGBT people and the advancement of their rights”. On September 14, 2021, Le Salon Beige published an article titled “It is forbidden to leave the LGBT sect”. In it, LGBT people are referred to as “inverted people” being part of a “sect” and having “unnatural tendencies” who should be “mastered” so that these people “return to normal behavior”.

Complaint against “Le Salon Beige” for inciting the practice of #TherapiesDeConversion on “inverted people” with “unnatural tendencies” which should be “mastered” to find “normal behavior” #NothingWill #JudicialAction

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– STOP HOMOPHOBIA (@stop_homophobia) December 17, 2021

For associations fighting against discrimination and LGBTphobic violence, “These remarks encourage the practice of conversion therapy and are thus condemnable under the incitement to violence because of sexual orientation and gender identity”.

According to a UN report, published in 2020 the practices of pseudo conversion therapy “are assimilated to acts of torture” and “the methods and means usually employed in the context of conversion therapy are likely to cause psychological and physical suffering”.

In France, the deputies adopted the law criminalizing “conversion therapies” unanimously and the senators voted on December 7, 2021 for the adoption of the text, with 305 votes for and 28 against.