Netflix's 'Pray Away' looks behd the curta of the 'ex-gay' movement

HOW BAD IS ‘NVERSN THERAPY,’ ALSO KNOWN AS ‘PRAY-THE-GAY-AWAY’?

The eleventh season of South Park was spectacular, and ’s credibly hard to pick a favore episo. By the send episo of the season, however, I thought I’d found one. “Cartman Sucks” is credible. Cartman, an attempt to gayify himself after placg Butters’ schlong his pie-hole (funny how that’s still slightly nfg), tri… * pray the gay away south park *

Meanwhile, Butters is sent to a special mp where they "Pray the Gay Away.

The next day, Cartman eagerly tells the rt of the boys that he put Butters' penis his mouth while he was asleep, llg Butters "gay". Kyle rms him that mak him gay, not Butters.

Kyle then tells Cartman to have Butters put his penis his mouth, as will "ncel out the gay polary".

‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?

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Butters is soon sent away to Camp New Grace on the advice of Prit Maxi where they "pray away the gay" by puttg bi-cur boys together and teachg them about the ways of J Christ. Cartman disvers that Kyle has lied to him about "gay polary", but tak closure the fact that "no one will ever know". Conversn therapy for gay and lbian teenagers beme famo after the 2007 “South Park” episo “Cartman Sucks.

” Butters Stotch’s parents thought he was “bi-cur” and sent to him a pray-the-gay-away mp, where several youth mted suici after beg told they were sexually nfed. “Conversn therapy, ” also lled “pray the gay away” and “ex-gay nversn therapy, ” is the attempt to e unselg or psychotherapy to change someone’s sexual orientatn by elimatg their sexual sir for members of their own sex. Some of the earlit mentns of “nversn therapy” were mid-19th century, when beg gay was viewed as “eher a crimal act or a medil problem, or both, ” acrdg to a 2009 report by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.

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When his "ultimate plan" to embarrass Butters backfir, Cartman stggl to keep his classmat om seeg a promisg photograph. Meanwhile, Butters is sent to a special mp where they "Pray the Gay Away." * pray the gay away south park *

In 1952, homosexualy was clud as a mental illns the first edn of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (better known as the DSM), and a variety of barbaric procr aimed at changg one’s sexual orientatn were troduced. In 1965, Time magaze ran an article wh the headle “Homosexuals Can Be Cured.

Dpe tense ristance om gay rights lears at the time, the gross treatments were practiced to 1970s. RELATED: Ex-gay therapy exposed ‘Kidnapped For Christ’. HOMOSEXUALITY NOT A DISORDER.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

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One light at the unr of the tunnel — In 1973, psychiatric groups removed homosexualy as a disorr om the DSM.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

When Amerin documentarian Kriste Stolakis set out to make her but feature film, she knew she wanted to she a light on the “ex-gay” movement. * pray the gay away south park *

” Butters Stotch’s parents thought he was “bi-cur” and sent to him a “pray-the-gay-away” mp, where several youth mted suici after beg told they were sexually nfed and gog to Hell. He won two awards and received a nomatn for his reportg on the lol LGBTQ muny, cludg a two-part vtigatn that exposed anti-gay bullyg of lol high school stunts and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protectns for LGBTQ stunts. Exod Internatnal, evangelilism’s flagship ex-gay mistry, shut down 2013 after former lear Alan Chambers said had ed pa and harm to too many people and that more than 99 percent of those who’d sought help there hadn’t actually experienced an orientatn change.

While mistri cludg Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay ed to preach that homosexual sire should be elimated, most evangelil church, pastors, and mental health profsnals today emphasize chasty amid sir that might last a lifetime. Even the Nashville Statement, a 14-pot manifto by the plementarian Council of Biblil Manhood and Womanhood, matas that homosexual sire may never change. Cartman, an attempt to gayify himself after placg Butters’ schlong his pie-hole (funny how that’s still slightly nfg), tri to have Butters’ swallow his salami (Kyle said that would work to reverse the gay polary).

Stotch walks on this momento event, he eaks out and sends Butters’ to Camp New Grace where he’s supposed to pray the gay away.