Gay picket to be staged at religious conference that labels them lepers

Gay rights campaigners have reacted with fury over plans to host a religious conference encouraging people to turn away from homosexuality.

Gay rights campaigners have reacted with fury over plans to host a religious conference encouraging people to turn away from homosexuality.

The two-day ‘reparative therapy’ event organised by the Core Issues Trust is being hosted at Orangefield Presbyterian Church in east Belfast next weekend.

However, The Rainbow Project, which represents the lesbian, gay and bi-sexual (LGB) community, claims the conference, entitled The Lepers Among Us, is offensive and has vowed to stage a picket outside the church, The Belfast Telegraph reports.