ABC News: Hundreds of Christian Anti-Gay 'Conversion Camps' for Kids 'Operating Across the Country'

[Heddi]

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/abc_news_hundreds_of_religious_anti_gay_conversion_camps_operating_across_the_country

Parents Paying Tens of Thousands of Dollars a Year for Pastors to Beat Their Kids Straight
ABC News' "20/20" Friday night will report on anti-gay so-called conversion therapy camps run by pastors and preachers who use "the Bible and sometimes the belt" to try to change children from being homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual.

Despite the practice being emotionally damaging and dangerous, despite being opposed by every major medical organization in the country, and linked to self-harm and suicide, Christian parents are still sending their children away to these torture camps.
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The Blessed Hope Christian Academy, Ross says, is run by a Christian pastor who charges $21,000 a year to "deal with teenagers who consider themselves gay." And he says parents give written consent for their children to be hit if they "act up."

The pastor on hidden camera says "it is going against the word of God. It is not biblically right."

Susan Cottrell of Freedhearts on camera says, "for every camp like this there are a hundred more that nobody knows about."

Ross also shows another camp, "unlicensed, and surrounded by barbed wire." As the clip continues, the "Christian pastor," Ross says, "has a track record of physical abuse and cruelty."

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[C_U_L8R]

1. Those kids are going to learn

to despise their church and their parents.

[Heddi]

3. If they don't succumb to depression, drug abuse, and/or suicide first

remember -- souls are more important than love and acceptance.

[Mariana]

14. You think?

I think it's much more likely that most of those kids are going to learn to despise themselves.

[Iggo]

15. That's what's taught. No surprise if that's what's learned. (n/t)

[RKP5637]

2. And yet another reason why I hate fucken religion, ALL religion!!! n/t

[Angry Dragon]

11. Organized religion .......... religion in of it self is not bad

[RKP5637]

13. Excellent point! n/t

[Angry Dragon]

21. thank you

[riversedge]

4. so sad. damn

[Phoenix61]

5. Too bad we can't send that preacher to a camp to convert him to a decent human being.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Good news at the end. That psycho 'pastor' just got served w/20 years for abuse/assault.

[RKP5637]

7. Wow! Excellent!!! n/t

[Iggo]

16. One down. Thousands and thousands to go. (n/t)

[CurtEastPoint]

17. Oh, there are none. Myth. That what the Fuckus On the Fambly pedo said. Fucker.

[Iggo]

18. Sounds like he's angling to be at the front of the line. Fine.

[hrmjustin]

8. This shit needs to be banned!

[shenmue]

9. Immediately

[Angry Dragon]

10. Their god is so proud of them

[luvMIdog]

12. If any turn into serial killers it's THEIR fault. Poor kids with stupid parents :(

[Lordquinton]

19. These camps should be illegal

But religion exploits loopholes, and uses it's privilege to create more.

[trotsky]

20. I watched this segment.

It was so sad to see these bigoted Christians and what they did to innocent kids.