Tim Farron apologises after tweet compares gay people to frogs

The newly elected Liberal Democrat leader said his personal Twitter account had been hacked

Tim Farron
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Tim Farron was forced to apologise after a tweet sent from his personal account compared gay people to frogs and fish and suggested that homosexuality was curable.

The message was sent in response to the British Humanist Association sharing an article about thousands of health workers in the UK believing that gay people can be "cured".

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