Brainwashing Camp for Gay Kids

[umbrella39]

16 year old attendee is writing a blog from the camp, and he's none too pleased. He says his parents lied to him and it's worse than boot camp. Go read, before they make him take it down.

Blog Link - entries before he went in, no internet access once inside

Here's a video link from WMCTV news story link where protests are being held Love and Action camp.

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Using the Bible to scared kids straight from homosexuality.

Parents told Mike before they institutionalized him

"I am a big screw up to them and I am not on the path God wants me to be on"

Great parenting and what a great Christianity all rolled into one. :roll:

 

[Valkerie]

~LOL~

this is the start of segregation...

do we need a gay MLK? or do we need Bill Clinton and M. Jackson to show the kids how it's done...? *they're probably in charge of the camps (jk)

..."the innocent will become incinerated in mind"

 

[Rainsford]

As much as critics seemed to dislike the movie "Saved", it was a good example of this kind of negative use of Christianity, and more importantly, the good side of it as well. It had exactly this sort of "gay camp" deal.

 

[Gaard]

This is pathetic. But you know what's even more pathetic? Parents who send their kids to this 'camp'.

 

[her209]

Nice sig, umbrella39!

 

[Valkerie]

Originally posted by: Gaard
This is pathetic. But you know what's even more pathetic? Parents who send their kids to this 'camp'.

.... omg, LOL, I must agree with this one!

 

[episodic]

It is easy to get kicked out of these. Just refuse to conform.

 

[aidanjm]

that is so fvcking absurd. the rules of that camp are just crazy. all sexual thoughts, fantasies to be reported to staff?? I wonder why. Seems like a really depraved, inhuman environment. Hope that kid is doing OK.

 

[Last Rezort]

First thing he should do if walk up to a staff member and hit him in the face. One good pop or two and BAM, out of the program.

 

[retsplG]

Originally posted by: Last Rezort
First thing he should do if walk up to a staff member and hit him in the face. One good pop or two and BAM, out of the program.

Hell yeah!

Not to mention well deserved to the reprehensible staff.

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
that is so fvcking absurd. the rules of that camp are just crazy. all sexual thoughts, fantasies to be reported to staff?? I wonder why. Seems like a really depraved, inhuman environment. Hope that kid is doing OK.

Sounds sick and disturbed to me. Kids being encouraged to tell all their sexual thoughts to strange adults they don't know? I don't know about the rest of you, but that sounds like a great environment for some sexual abuse to me.

 

[eilute]

This is the organizations web site:

http://www.loveinaction.org/

Does anyone else think that they're practicing psychiatric medicine without a license?

 

[2Xtreme21]

It's not psychiatric medicine. It's merely strict enforcement of Bible Doctrine.

This is absurd though. I was reading the site and wow. I hate people who think that homosexuality is some kind of contagious disease.

 

[umbrella39]

I thought this kind of camp would be right up some members ally. I am curious why they have not chimed in yet?

Since many think that homosexuality is a disease that can be treated and cured, I would love to hear them champion this camp in a public forum.

Come on now, God does not want you being quiet about this, speak out.

 

[umbrella39]

* crickets *

 

[Riprorin]

Good for the parents. They are doing what they can to prevent their child from likely going through a life of misery.

Depression and Mental Health Emerge as Major Concerns for the Community

 

[Riprorin]

Recent attention has focused on teenagers. Those years of transition into adulthood are a peak time for suicide, often on impulse. The latest research from Minnesota demonstrates that gay male teens are seven times more likely to kill themselves than are their heterosexual counterparts.

Link

 

[Riprorin]

A new study which analyzed tens of thousands of gay obituaries and compared them with AIDS deaths data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has shown that the life expectancy for homosexuals is about twenty years shorter than that of the general public. The study, entitled ?Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS?, has been published in Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).

Yet Another Study Confirms Gay Life Expectancy 20 Years Shorter

 

[Steeplerot]

hmm wonder whythose kids want to off themselves.....oh yeah it's the ignorant people who tell them they are unnatural freaks...

 

[Amplifier]

I'm willing to bet most of you aren't parents. Because if you were you'd know a camp isn't extreme enough. If my kid were a i love you I wouldn't send him to a bootcamp, I'd give him a choice between banging a hot hooker or getting hit with a metal bat.

Tough love.

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[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
I'm willing to bet most of you aren't parents. Because if you were you'd know a camp isn't extreme enough. If my kid were a i love you I wouldn't send him to a bootcamp, I'd give him a choice between banging a hot hooker or getting hit with a metal bat.

Tough love.

Proof positive that some modern Humans did evolved from Neanderthals

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
I'm willing to bet most of you aren't parents. Because if you were you'd know a camp isn't extreme enough. If my kid were a i love you I wouldn't send him to a bootcamp, I'd give him a choice between banging a hot hooker or getting hit with a metal bat.

Tough love.

WTF?

 

[umbrella39]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
I'm willing to bet most of you aren't parents. Because if you were you'd know a camp isn't extreme enough. If my kid were a i love you I wouldn't send him to a bootcamp, I'd give him a choice between banging a hot hooker or getting hit with a metal bat.

Tough love.

LOL. I wish I were your kid and you came at me with a bat! You would be resting in hell within a minute.

 

[Legend]

"Those years of transition into adulthood are a peak time for suicide, often on impulse. The latest research from Minnesota demonstrates that gay male teens are seven times more likely to kill themselves than are their heterosexual counterparts."

Gay's aren't suicidal because they're gay. They're suicidal because of people like YOU. Read the kid's blog. His parent's are telling him he's a terrible person and that he's a total screw up. That's what's given him suicidal thoughts, not his gay attractions.

I just hope he doesn't get screwed up because of this. This camp can't make him straight. All it could do is force open some bisexual attractions he's never encountered.


Seriously, this camp should just show some hot women from met art and hegre archives. And then, have a fat burly man walk in baggy clothes. If the kid still wants the man, then he's gay, lol.

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: Last Rezort
First thing he should do if walk up to a staff member and hit him in the face. One good pop or two and BAM, out of the program.

And you can go to jail where Bubba can more than satisfy your sexual needs.

hmm wonder whythose kids want to off themselves.....oh yeah it's the ignorant people who tell them they are unnatural freaks...

Or maybe its the sick thoughts that dirty their minds like a virus.

As for the camp itself, what is there to say about it? It's great they are getting help that they need.