People dg at an Atlanta rtrant enuntered the tough suatn of a pastor attemptg to "pray the gay away" on a teenage boy on the latt episo of "What Would You Do?"
Contents:
- ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE WNS A 'PASTOR' TRYG TO 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY'?
- 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
- ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
- PRAY AWAY THE GAY?
- NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
- WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?
- PASTOR ‘PRAYS THE GAY AWAY’ ON ‘WHAT WOULD YOU DO?”
‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
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 away the gay what would you do if *
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.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE WNS A 'PASTOR' TRYG TO 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY'?
Even the Nashville Statement, a 14-pot manifto by the plementarian Council of Biblil Manhood and Womanhood, matas that homosexual sire may never change. A popular realy televisn show recently tted people’s reactns to seeg an evangelil pastor teractg wh a teenage boy hop of “prayg the gay” out of him.
In this segment, which tak place at an Atlanta rtrant, an actor playg a young gay man is told by two other actors playg his parents that a pastor is g ― and eventually shows up ― to “pray away the gay.
5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
“And when your pastor don’t speak about homosexualy or quot you parts of the Bible that tell you that ’s wrong, we really, really believe this and further creas low self-teem.
"Wh my first weeks therapy, I was told every other gay person on Earth had been executed.... By the end of the so-lled 'treatments, ' I believed the ernment was lookg for me bee the gays had brought AIDS to Ameri and that I now had this disease ragg through me.
‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
" That is, they assumed that bee he was gay, 's bee his ntrollg mother and adbeat dad had nfed and irreparably trmatized his genals. In fact, they uldn't fd any trma to blame Sam's homosexualy on at all. 4 They Physilly Torture You For Beg Gay.
PRAY AWAY THE GAY?
Later ssns would clu pper heatg ils, needl my fgers, and electric shocks, " all while Sam was shown gay porn.
Antos777/iStock/Getty Imag Of urse, no one explaed why they had a stockpile of gay porn on hand.
Obvly, spe the old sayg, you n't "heatg-il the gay away.
NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
In fact, he got so ed to reprsg his te self that, even after he me out, he wasn't entirely sure how to be: When he got to llege and first enuntered the gay muny, he immediately "me out a ball of glter. " He embraced a sparkly, Freddy Mercury-stage-show-liftyle bee he saw a bunch of out-and-proud homosexuals and thought that was how was done.
WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?
"I'm very flamboyant, and that's partly bee of how I was troduced to the ia of other gay men existg.... I found out what a gay person looked like, and realized that was how I was supposed to act. 2 There's A Reason Some Gays Are So "Flamboyant".
Go to a hardware store on the day of the gay pri para and you might hear an old du wh a beer gut lament, "Why do them gays have to be so flamboyant? The vast majory of homosexuals are -- shocker -- jt people. But if you see somebody sportg an outlandish stume, 's not about makg homosexualy look fun to help "turn kids gay" (if Sam's gayns uld survive electroshock torture, then we're pretty sure another kid's straightns n survive a few paras and some sequ boas); 's about showg closeted gay kids that homosexualy isn't tomatilly a lifetime of misery.
1 Both Fah And Homosexualy Can Be Equally Intolerant. I'm the middle ground: From some fah muni, I'm attacked for beg gay.
PASTOR ‘PRAYS THE GAY AWAY’ ON ‘WHAT WOULD YOU DO?”
From some gay muni, I'm attacked as beg Christian. Fally some mon ground between tolerant homosexuals and tolerant Christians: tolerance!