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Currently making the rounds on the Interwub: a video from a church in Connecticut in which church elders perform an exorcism of a 16-year-old boy to cure him of his homosexuality.

Following the predictable outrage, the church removed the video from YouTube, but you can see a clip here if you want.

"Rip it from his throat!" a woman yells. "Come on, you homosexual demon! You homosexual spirit, we call you out right now! Loose your grip, Lucifer!"

What’s really disturbing is the idea that it’s not just one church in Connecticutt doing this kind of thing:
 
It's nearly impossible to say how often similar exercises occur in churches nationwide. But Kamora Herrington, who runs a mentoring program at True Colors and has worked with the youth, said she believes it's fairly common.

"This happens all the time," she said.

"This is not isolated."Robin McHaelin, executive director of True Colors, an advocacy group for gay youths, said her organization is aware of five cases in recent years in which youths in her program were threatened with exorcism.

Couple that with the knowledge that 45% of the country voted for a presidential candidate whose VP (who was arguably more popular than he was) was blessed in church by witch hunters – and the fact that the GOP’s original 2012 hopeful, Bobby Jindal, says he has actually performed an exorcism – and things start looking grim indeed.

Delicious demon,

This is dF

on 2009-06-27 01:31 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] thelastaerie.livejournal.com
maybe they should wrap and tie up this "homosexual demons" bag, ship and release it to California - they need some more homo demons over there to get the gay marriage going again.

on 2009-06-27 03:06 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] puffdoggydaddy.livejournal.com
You left out the part where a naked dwarf with a cross tattooed on one arm and a pentagram on the other takes the bag with the vomited homosexual demon in it and runs through an unconsecrated graveyard and throws the bag into an unmarked hole which has gasoline poured into it and a lit Cuban cigar thrown after it. Then, two unlicensed gravediggers, preferably illegal aliens of non-specific nationality, shovel equal parts dirt and Rocky Road ice cream into the pit until the flames are extinguished before completing the fill with dirt. And finally, the exorcising preacher/minister/priest has to dismember a My Pretty Pony, Strawberry Shortcake, or Cabbage Patch kid over the top of the demon's grave, thus ending the ceremony.

...

What?

It makes as much sense as the rest of that exorcism crap. :)

on 2009-06-27 04:30 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com
I didn't want to spoil it for everyone.

......................Not that you did.

on 2009-06-27 03:21 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] lorilori.livejournal.com
Oh, you already read about it.

on 2009-06-27 04:31 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com
I did. Figured it was old news for you, though.

on 2009-07-02 01:24 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] dinopollard.livejournal.com
And people wonder why I don't want to return to America.

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