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    Masshole JamesAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 4:58pm

    Ex-gay therapy totally works. Look at this dude who went from a screaming queen to a totally hetero, married (to a woman, who’s totally not a lesbian) God warrior.

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    (I have no idea why he’s wearing a window curtain around his neck but I guess it’s what hetero dudes do nowadays.)

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      senorserviceMasshole James
      6/08/16 5:01pm

      oh my god, this is FREAKISHLY SIMILAR to a comedy sketch on Mr Show back in the day

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      Citizen-KangMasshole James
      6/08/16 5:03pm

      That neck scarf and that splayed-out collar? Totally straight. I’d bet The Donald’s life on it.

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    AlannaofTrebondAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 4:56pm

    I’m so glad for Sarah that not all of her family are shitlords. My heart breaks for the kids at the facility that aren’t that lucky. All of these military-style/hard labor camps for “troubled” teens should be illegal, they're abuse straight up.

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      acmeindustriesAlannaofTrebond
      6/08/16 5:03pm

      Starred for “shitlords,” and also for the substance of you comment.

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      MsMymlanAlannaofTrebond
      6/08/16 5:06pm

      I don’t know much about these camps, but from the little I know they seem just a small step up from victorian asylums or KZs.

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    FIGJAMAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 5:21pm

    Looks to me like it’s definitely “Heartlight Ministries”. Here’s a link about teen sexuality:
    https://www.heartlightministries.org/2016/02/teen-g...

    Also, it’s the only one of the 4 in east texas that appears to be a boarding school and appears to focus on “troubled teens”. I’m still looking through the details on the others but I’d bet money it’s Heartlight. I’d have to think it would take a lawyer and 40k, I’d have to think it would take some attention and picketing of that school to get the girl released to the extended family. Those kind of people don’t like too much scrutiny. You know, like financial scrutiny.....

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      LazyLemmingFIGJAM
      6/08/16 6:07pm

      I can’t believe I just read that. I’m so sick right now...
      They make it sound like they’re helping the child as they mentally and emotionally destroy them in the name of a “Loving god”.

      “allowing her to live away from her current scene, with relatives or at a place like Heartlight.”

      Or... imprisoning someone at a place like Heartlight. Say it for what it is. These people are disgusting.

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      DonnaLFIGJAM
      6/08/16 7:07pm

      They could probably hire a team of ex-mercenaries to break her out and spirit her away to another state. At least, that’s what they’d do if this were a movie.

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    FizziksAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 5:01pm

    Somewhat related to the topic, when people ask if being gay is a choice, I say that the correct answer is “no it’s not”, but I think an even better answer is “so what if it was”? I just never understood why some people care so much about others being intimate with members of the same sex. Seriously, how does it affect you and your relationships if other people are gay?

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      Nicole WattersonFizziks
      6/08/16 5:04pm

      “No, it’s not.” matters because a lot of parents think they can change their children. Mine sure think that.

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      Dilly BeansFizziks
      6/08/16 5:09pm

      “they didn’t choose it” sounds a lot like “they can’t help it”. And “they can’t help it” still makes it sound like it’s a bad thing.

      As a bisexual woman, I do, kind of sort of, have a choice. I can choose to only pursue heterosexual relationships if I want, and I can still have a satisfying relationship. If gayness is only okay when it’s not a choice, then is it wrong for me to willingly choose it?

      I can appreciate the intent of the “not a choice” camp, but it’s not the ultimate solution.

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    MalcireAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 5:04pm

    I’m wondering how effective this is going to be. I’m assuming the state of Texas views this as therapy (instead of just not making it illegal yet). Additionally as long as it is legal I’m wondering if she wouldn’t just be sent back to her parents even if a court order prevented sending her back to the camp.

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      weebleswobbleMalcire
      6/08/16 5:06pm

      I would assume if the court rules that she can’t be kept at the “camp,” she would have grounds for emancipation from her parents. Hopefully they raise enough money that she can be set up sans asshole parents for a bit.

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      Paranoid Android (sometimes says dumb things)weebleswobble
      6/08/16 5:14pm

      I hope her parents receive prison time for child abuse.

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    Flying SquidAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 5:34pm

    Can you imagine the amount of anger fucking going on in those camps? Like on the level of “I’m not even into you but these people are complete assholes, so let’s fuck just to piss them off.”

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      Nicole WattersonFlying Squid
      6/08/16 5:39pm

      Yeah, that’s exactly what’s happening in such an oppressive and controlling environment. Ugh, what a stupid comment to make...

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      Flying SquidNicole Watterson
      6/08/16 5:40pm

      It’s sure as hell what I would do. I’d be fucking everyone who’d let me. Right in front of the counselors. What would they do, send me to another camp?

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    weebleswobbleAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 4:55pm

    This is a nice punctuation mark on a conversation I had this morning with someone who said that people should stop talking about LGB rights because “they can get married what else do they want.”

    (I leave out the T because not even he was dumb enough to think that battle was over).

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      toscatiosiweebleswobble
      6/08/16 5:07pm

      I love the oldie but goodie “At least you don’t get killed here like you would in other parts of the world.”

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      weebleswobbletoscatiosi
      6/08/16 5:10pm

      Depressingly, there are a lot of news stories we can still link to to refute that one when it’s pulled out.

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    toscatiosiAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 5:06pm

    So essentially these parents have thrown their daughter away. When she gets out she is never going to speak to them. It would have been kinder had they just kicked her out. At least she could have gone to the family members who actually care for her.

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      sexyarmchairtoscatiosi
      6/08/16 5:09pm

      Yeah, disowning her would be an improvement over this bullshit.

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      Hntrss13 Version 2.0toscatiosi
      6/08/16 5:24pm

      The only saving grace of this story is that she DOES have some family who love her and care for her and want to do right by her. So many people don’t have that.

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    GemmabetaAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 5:03pm

    Speaking as a Christian.

    This be some Firefly Special Hell shit.

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      sexyarmchairGemmabeta
      6/08/16 5:07pm

      If I could give you a million stars, I would, because I agree more than I can possibly convey.

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    KeevaSAnna Merlan
    6/08/16 5:01pm

    Her parents are surely the same type of bible thumping hypocrites that worry themselves over the “unborn”, but have no problem sending their actual living, already born daughter to a place that is effectively imprisoning her and forcing her to change who she is against her will.

    All because they have been fooled into believing that illegitimate son of the invisible man in the sky never said so, but the 12 cranky illiterate men who fostered the creation of the 2000 year old book of myths and legends say he said so.

    Once again, religion proves to be the most destructive and cruel force in the history of man.

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      JeanJeanKeevaS
      6/08/16 5:11pm

      Exactly. I am so fucking over people using their fair-tale beliefs as reasons to fuck up other people’s lives.

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      TheVageniusKeevaS
      6/08/16 6:05pm

      Except it's not forcing her to change because you can't change gay. So in essence they're forcing her to get really good at pretending or to actively hate and deny herself.

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