Most parent’s want their kids to be happy. And if their son happens to fall in love with another boy most parents don’t mind the gender of his love as soon as gets treated well by this other boy. That’s because parents usually try to protect their children from all evil.
But there are also parents who are evangelical Christians. Parents who don’t care much for the welfare of their kids in this world because they believe in a fantasy world of the undead in which you have to endure eternal torture if you don’t play by the rules a crazy thousands of years old book they randomly picked as their living-guide. And because eternal torture in a fantasy world isn’t nice they rather let their kid have some actual torture in our actual world.
A new film, Kidnapped for Christ, exposes the "troubled teen industry" in which groups like ‘Escuela Caribe’ an Evangelical Christian reform school offer "ex-gay" reparative therapy through psychological and physical abuse.
Kidnapped for Christ follows several stories including that of David, a gay teen, who was rescued from the camp by people in his community who discovered that he was being held there illegally past the age of 18. [via Towelroad]