Meet David Wernsman, Kidnapped and Beaten at 17 for Being Gay
His parents sent him to a school in the Dominican Republic run by U.S. Christians who beat and humiliated him.
If you haven’t heard of the industry, it’s largely owned and operated by conservative Christians who deny mental-health science and work to “convert” LGBTQ youth into being cisgender or straight. They claim to be able to cure “delinquency,” drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, “defiance,” and even panic attacks.
The movement’s boot camps, ranches, outdoor-adventure programs, and boarding schools have long been dogged by complaints of brutality and ineffectiveness. Despite that, the industry receives billions of public dollars to “treat” teens whose only crime was not conforming with their parents’ religious beliefs. The American Bar Association estimated that the industry received about 23 billion USD in 2021 alone. Those are your taxpayer dollars if you live in the U.S.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/meet-david-...edc0aeb1af
His parents sent him to a school in the Dominican Republic run by U.S. Christians who beat and humiliated him.
If you haven’t heard of the industry, it’s largely owned and operated by conservative Christians who deny mental-health science and work to “convert” LGBTQ youth into being cisgender or straight. They claim to be able to cure “delinquency,” drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, “defiance,” and even panic attacks.
The movement’s boot camps, ranches, outdoor-adventure programs, and boarding schools have long been dogged by complaints of brutality and ineffectiveness. Despite that, the industry receives billions of public dollars to “treat” teens whose only crime was not conforming with their parents’ religious beliefs. The American Bar Association estimated that the industry received about 23 billion USD in 2021 alone. Those are your taxpayer dollars if you live in the U.S.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/meet-david-...edc0aeb1af
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
