Monday, June 13, 2005

Blogger in trouble

Zach, a young blogger from the US is being sent off to a church-sponsored camp called (horribly ironically) Love in Action to "cure" his homosexuality...! Surely there is a law against this sort of thing? Surely its "unconstitutional"?

The guy who runs the camp is quoted as saying "I would rather you commit suicide than have you leave Love In Action wanting to return to the gay lifestyle. In a physical death you could still have a spiritual resurrection; whereas, returning to homosexuality you are yielding yourself to a spiritual death from which there is no recovery."

You can contact Zach himself through his blog, although I suspect he's not being allowed on it during his incarceration in this horrible brain-washing facility. Lots of other bloggers have picked up on it too, I saw it at Alas, A Blog and Tennessee Guerilla Women. Perhaps if it gets some media attention someone will be able to do something about it.

Perhaps I should start a little summer camp to de-program people who've been brainwashed by fundamentalist right-wing nutcase Christianity...?

2 comments:

egalia said...

"Perhaps I should start a little summer camp to de-program people who've been brainwashed by fundamentalist right-wing nutcase Christianity...?"

hey there, thanks for the link and for covering Zach's story. News of Zach sure has traveled.

"Perhaps I should start a little summer camp to de-program people who've been brainwashed by fundamentalist right-wing nutcase Christianity...?"

I wish you would. We sure could use a few here in TN. Speaking of which, the Southern Baptists are about to invade Nashville, gawd help us. My friend swears she's going to decorate her house with marilyn manson paraphenalia and invite them in when 10,000+ of invade our town. I need to blog on this.

egalia said...

oops, sorry for the double quote.