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28 Apr 2010
Journey Into Manhood is "a 48-hour immersion in intensive emotional-healing work, specifically for men who are self-motivated and serious about resolving unwanted homosexual attractions" for self-hating gay Christian men.
It's run by an organisation called People Can Change which peddles the usual crap about homosexuality being the result of early relationships with parents and peers: over-bearing mothers, distant fathers, peer conflict, sexual abuse... You know the kind of crap.
Ted Cox, a straight guy and atheist, went on the retreat.
I don’t remember exactly when I felt his erection pressing into my back. It might have been while he whispered in my ear, “Long ago, you were the Golden Child. But, somehow, that Golden Child was hurt, and you put up a wall to protect yourself.” Or it might have been when other men in the room broke out in song:
How could anyone ever tell you
That you’re anything less than beautiful?
How could anyone ever tell you
That you’re less than whole?
I sat on the floor between the outstretched legs of a camp guide, my head leaning back against his shoulder. The guide sat behind me, his arms wrapped around my chest. This hold was called “The Motorcycle.” Five men surrounded the two of us, their hands resting gently on my arms, legs and chest.
There were about ten other groups like this sitting on the floor in the darkened room: one guide giving “healing-touch therapy” while the surrounding men rested their hands on the receiver. Some men were held in the Motorcycle position. Others were turned towards their guide, cradled the way a parent would hold a sobbing child who had just scraped her knee on the sidewalk.
Read the rest.
religion poisons everything
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