This video summed up in one sentence: the look into the secret Christian camp which ‘kidnaps’ mostly gay and lesbian children (with their parents’ permission) and spirits them away to another country so they can be ‘cured’.
For more detail, here’s some info from the documentary film site itself. It says:
“Kidnapped for Christ is a feature-length documentary film, which follows the stories of several American teenagers who were sent to an Evangelical Christian reform school located in The Dominican Republic called “Escuela Caribe.” The school is run by Americans and is advertised as a “therapeutic Christian boarding school” whose mission is to “help struggling youth transform into healthy Christian adults.” While many have praised the school for saving the lives of hundreds of troubled teens, in the past several years many former students have begun to speak out against the school, claiming that they suffered both psychological and physical abuse during their time there. The film’s director, Kate Logan, set out to document the experiences of the students at this remote boarding school and was given unprecedented access to film for seven weeks on campus in the summer of 2006. Through candid interviews with distressed students, footage of staff imposing extreme discipline and punishments, and finally the attempted rescue of a student being held at the school illegally past the age of 18, she was able to reveal the shocking truth of what was actually going on at Escuela Caribe.”
Read more about it here
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my thoughts about this entire issue
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I can't be bothered typing it all out again :) sometimes this world disgusts me...
can I link to this MM team? If not, I'm sorry!
I like your blog post. Unfortunately because the bible has so much in it, it is not to hard to find something to back up any pre-existing prejudices.
Good for you. I enjoyed reading your blog.
I wish more real christians would speak up against the loony fundamentalists. I'm not religious but from what I understand Jesus was a tolerant, accepting person, not hateful.
As the Bible was written by men so long ago of course attitudes have changed and religion needs to move on with this.
Bigots have used the Bible to justify slavery, wars, guns, prejudice and executions. It must be so convenient to say you have God on your side just to defend horrible self-serving acts.
I hope Australia manages to avoid the lunacy of some USA religions.
....Cheers
Oh My God. How very sad.
I must admit my first thoughts were: if you want to 'de-gay' your child, why are you sending them to a 'camp' populated with other gay kids - whom they will be bunking up with?! I'm imaging there are guy dorms and girl dorms? Hello????
Just shows how naive these parents actually are.