LGBT global news 24-7

Content about Creare

January 18, 2013

South Africa gay 'cure' school to face probe

A Christian arts academy that offers to 'cure' gays is to face a probe launched by the South African justice ministry

The South African justice ministry has asked the country’s Human Rights Commission to investigate claims of unfair discrimination at arts academy that says it can cure gays.

Creare Training Centre in Bloemfontein offers a course to cure gay and stated that anyone who objects to the ‘treatment’ should be dismissed.

January 14, 2013

‘We cure gays’ claims Christian school in South Africa

A South African Christian arts academy in Bloemfontein may be breaking the law by advertising that it can ‘cure’ gay students, and if ‘treatment’ is refused, they can be expelled

The South African Sunday Times reported that the Creare Training Centre’s prospectus claimed it could ‘convert’ gay students into ‘straight’ through ‘rehabilitation’.

Gay rights activists had slammed this as ‘tragic, shameful and deeply hurtful’, according to the report.