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After reports of an evangelical course promising to ?cure? gay students Ben Judge and Hannah Thomas examine the response from British students.
Students nationwide have joined an online protest against a campus based Christian course which encourages gay students to suppress their homosexuality.
Using the social networking website Facebook, incensed students have formed a protest group designed to prevent the course running on university property and using student union funds across the country.
Websites such as Facebook and MySpace, have enabled students to rapidly galvanise support for issues on a national level. Taking their cue from large scale protest groups, who use the internet to attract support for their campaigns, students are finding the online sphere a powerful tool for change.