I would like to tell you a true horror story about one of the victims of these ex-gay ministries. When I had read this I was shocked at what lengths one person will go through to fit into someone else’s model of what normal people should be like, sexually.
If you read a previous post titled “Pious Frauds” you will know what these ex-gay ministries are and I will not waste time repeating myself. Suffice it to say that these places are very bad and who care only about the money you give them for their magical cure and how to use the brainwashed victims they make to deny gay people their basic civil rights as citizens of this country.
This story starts out like any other from these victims of ex-gay ministries. A gay male who is pressured either by his family, friends, or his own church inspired guilt and self-loathing to go to one of these places for “treatment”. Time passes and he exposed to the various reparative therapy regimens that he will hope will change him into a fully functioning heterosexual adult. Touch football, watching sports, shock therapy, prayer, and blaming their innocent parents for their condition, among other things. But as so many others have found out before him these treatments do not seem to be working as advertised. They tell him the reason why it is not working is because it is his fault. That he did not pray hard enough, didn’t let Jesus into his heart and that all he needs to do is give them more money and he must work even harder so god will bless him and make him straight. All the while the pressure is building up and the self-loathing has gotten worse and worse. Till finally one desperate day came and he wanted to get cured of his same sex attractions once and for all and then he did something extremely drastic. He took a very sharp object and cut open his own genitals and then poured Liquid Drano into the wound. This, he hoped, would be the cure he and everybody else wanted for him. The story ends there and I do not know what happened to him after that, but I hope his okay.
This is an extreme but telling case, most give up on trying to change their sexual orientation, while some suffer nervous breakdowns, or others simply commit suicide rather than live a life as a gay person. And the religious people say that their beliefs does no real harm to anyone. Well in this case they dead wrong. It is only accepting yourself as nature intended you to be, will anyone find true happiness.
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