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(Boing Boing)   Are you an evangelical with a gay kid? A little stint in this militarized offshore labor camp will straighten them right out   (boingboing.net) divider line 375
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2012-02-15 01:31:05 PM
How are any of these farks not in prison? Surely kidnapping is illegal in the Dominican Republic too.
 
2012-02-15 01:31:41 PM
Er, I meant abuse, not kidnapping.
 
2012-02-15 01:38:31 PM
I really need a good word to convey a strong feeling of disgust coupled with an absolute lack of surprise
 
2012-02-15 02:12:03 PM
You know Who else had a camp for kids?
 
2012-02-15 02:22:40 PM
I'm absolutely certain that none of the instructors I saw in that video clip are actually closeted homosexuals themselves. I'm also completely positive that none of them have any tendencies toward sadism that might make being in a position of absolute power over young people who have no recourse a sexual turn-on for them.
 
2012-02-15 02:34:30 PM
Social conservatism is a plague on society
 
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2012-02-15 02:39:12 PM
Sleeping Monkey: Social conservatism is a plague on society

It really is starting to make me wonder. This isn't a different point of view, this is barking insane.
 
2012-02-15 02:46:01 PM
Sleeping Monkey: Social conservatism is a plague on society

I hope there's such a big backlash that we end up becoming the most atheistic and the most socialist nation in the West. Somehow I doubt that'll happen because "both sides are bad" or something.
 
2012-02-15 02:48:30 PM
So they've reach the Spanish Inquisition stage of their religion. It's amazing no one ever suspects that, even after years of warnings on the BBC and PBS.
 
2012-02-15 02:53:09 PM
My dad was constantly threatening me with being sent to such a school when I was a kid.
 
2012-02-15 02:53:52 PM
Stuff like this makes me think there should be some sort of war on Christianity.
 
2012-02-15 02:59:00 PM
parents pay military-style boarding school to render them to an offshore facility,

Like many others, David was taken in the night without warning by a "transport service" and was never told where he was going or when he would be brought back home
.

I don't understand how they get to the airport, onto a commercial plane, through customs, and into another country.

Even a private plane has to be cleared through customs. And what about when they get back into the US?
 
2012-02-15 02:59:09 PM
Do the kids who flunk the school get sold to Rush Limbaugh?
 
2012-02-15 02:59:50 PM
djkutch: Stuff like this makes me think there should be some sort of war on Christianity.

It's a mad, freakin' cult. The world would be a lot better off without America's diseased brand of Christianity.
 
2012-02-15 03:01:17 PM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: I really need a good word to convey a strong feeling of disgust coupled with an absolute lack of surprise

"Republicans"?
 
2012-02-15 03:01:30 PM
You're kidnapping gay children and bringing them to the Dominican Republic?


www.examiner.com


I'll take two!
 
2012-02-15 03:04:08 PM
MaudlinMutantMollusk: You know Who else had a camp for kids?

L.Ron Hubbard.
 
2012-02-15 03:07:45 PM
If repression and military training turns people straight, why did they work so hard to keep gays out of the military?
 
2012-02-15 03:08:30 PM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: I really need a good word to convey a strong feeling of disgust coupled with an absolute lack of surprise

You read my mind.

/repugnacertainty?
//sure-firevulsion?
 
2012-02-15 03:09:12 PM
All the cool kids are going to camp, why not?
 
2012-02-15 03:09:21 PM
Well, if they weren't screwed in the head already, they will be.
 
2012-02-15 03:09:26 PM
This is disgusting. How can anyone possibly defend this?
 
2012-02-15 03:10:05 PM
Sleeping Monkey: Social conservatism is a plague on society

Yes it is.
 
2012-02-15 03:10:43 PM
vernonFL: You're kidnapping gay children and bringing them to the Dominican Republic?


[www.examiner.com image 453x348]


I'll take two!


That made me laugh.
 
2012-02-15 03:11:29 PM
This is not Christ-Like. This is not right. Regardless of your religion (or lack of one) you cannot in good conscience sanction this. These people are farked up in the head.
 
2012-02-15 03:11:31 PM
Jesus Christ, these people are ridiculous... I can't even imagine the mental damage they're doing to these kids with shiat like this.

My parents may not have been perfect, but I'm so happy they weren't deranged religious fascists.
 
2012-02-15 03:12:02 PM
In the parents' defense, they tried shooting their laptops first.
 
2012-02-15 03:12:45 PM
I used to work with a girl who went to a camp like that. According to her mom it made her behavioral problems worse, not better, surprise surprise.

Camps like that are a huge waste of money and highly abusive.
 
2012-02-15 03:13:50 PM
Wait, we're letting minors travel internationally without an accompanying adult now?

I know that's not really the "dick move" element of the story, but it seems like that it should make this kind of thing somewhat untenable from a practical perspective.
 
2012-02-15 03:15:30 PM
keylock71: My parents may not have been perfect, but I'm so happy they weren't deranged religious fascists.

This. Do these people really want to put their dogmatic beliefs before their own children's happiness?
 
2012-02-15 03:16:45 PM
These people are farking monsters.
 
2012-02-15 03:17:14 PM
This is how I know I'll make a terrible parent.

I smiled at this. "Good idea."

Not for gay kids, though. More for the dirty, noisy ones.

So, most of them, I guess.
 
2012-02-15 03:17:47 PM
miss diminutive: This. Do these people really want to put their dogmatic beliefs before their own children's happiness?

Constantly. Disowning your kid because he's gay? Disowning your kid because he's atheist? Does any of that sound remotely unrealistic among fundamentalist lunatics?
 
2012-02-15 03:18:27 PM
Jim_Callahan: Wait, we're letting minors travel internationally without an accompanying adult now?

I know that's not really the "dick move" element of the story, but it seems like that it should make this kind of thing somewhat untenable from a practical perspective.


I'm sure the parents willingly signed whatever authorizations were needed for the staff of the reeducation camp to transport the kids.
 
2012-02-15 03:18:32 PM
You gotta be crazy to send your kid to the dr like that, you seriously must not care about their welfare at that point.
 
2012-02-15 03:18:46 PM
How very Christlike of them.

\sickened
\\but not at all surprised, sadly, this is what Christianity has become.
 
2012-02-15 03:19:03 PM
i-dont-want-to-live-on-this-planet-anymore.jpg
 
2012-02-15 03:19:05 PM
This is the best idea ever. Maybe a drill instructer can finally convince the evangelicals to stop abusing their children.
 
2012-02-15 03:19:21 PM
Makes me want to break out my DVD copy of "Twink Boot Camp 2: Meet the Daddies" that I found in the Fetish / BDSM section of the local gay bookstore.
 
2012-02-15 03:20:10 PM
xalres: How very Christlike of them.

\sickened
\\but not at all surprised, sadly, this is what Christianity has become.


The Old Testament: Back by Popular Demand
 
2012-02-15 03:20:18 PM
Bloody William: These people are farking monsters.

Nothing in Leviticus against that.
 
2012-02-15 03:20:30 PM
The important question that I want answered is does the camp mentioned in TFA use the accountabili-buddy system?
 
2012-02-15 03:20:51 PM
themindiswatching: Sleeping Monkey: Social conservatism is a plague on society

I hope there's such a big backlash that we end up becoming the most atheistic and the most socialist nation in the West. Somehow I doubt that'll happen because "both sides are bad" or something.


I'm trying to come up with the other side of the "both sides are bad" coin here and simply can't. Can you imagine what the outcry would be like if some kid came home and told his parents he'd joined the Young Republicans and they shipped him off to the Saul Alinsky Memorial School for Socialistic Rehabilitation?
 
2012-02-15 03:21:36 PM
Why didn't I know about these camps when I had kids?
 
2012-02-15 03:21:42 PM
my BFF and her younger brother got shipped off against their will to a non-jesusy but similar military style training camp to reprogram troubled youth and teach them "values and respect". same kind of controlling, ask permission for everything, break them down to rebuild them shiat. it was a severely farked up place that screwed them both up way more than they were and left them with PTSD, though they've finally, years later, both generally recovered from it.
 
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2012-02-15 03:21:59 PM
WTF Indeed: So they've reach the Spanish Inquisition stage of their religion. It's amazing no one ever suspects that, even after years of warnings on the BBC and PBS.

1.bp.blogspot.com
Sees what you did there.
 
2012-02-15 03:22:38 PM
timujin: I'm trying to come up with the other side of the "both sides are bad" coin here and simply can't. Can you imagine what the outcry would be like if some kid came home and told his parents he'd joined the Young Republicans and they shipped him off to the Saul Alinsky Memorial School for Socialistic Rehabilitation?

The most a conservative kid of liberal parents would have to worry about is the parents no longer sharing their pot.
 
2012-02-15 03:22:55 PM
This stuff makes me livid with rage. There are so many ways this is wrong, legally, morally, ethically. There is not a single solitary redeeming feature to this monstrous activity. The slightest shred of compassion, of tolerance, of empathy should be enough for anyone to instantly recognize that you do not ever do this sort of thing to anyone, let alone your own vulnerable minor children who look to you for care and trust you with their lives.

As far as I am concerned, any parent that ever does this to their child deserves to be immediately and summarily declared an unfit parent who is an active danger to their child, have custody removed, and never be allowed unsupervised contact with that child again.

And as for the debased sadistic f*ckwits that actually run these kinds of camps, I simply cannot think of an appropriate fate, because every time I think about it my train of thought devolves into a hate-filled revenge fantasy that I know is not appropriate no matter how satisfying it would be. Fortune save them should I ever be in a position of power over any of these inhuman animals masquerading as people for any reason, because I do not think I could stop myself from doing whatever I could do wreck their lives however I could.
 
2012-02-15 03:24:05 PM
Bloody William: miss diminutive: This. Do these people really want to put their dogmatic beliefs before their own children's happiness?

Constantly. Disowning your kid because he's gay? Disowning your kid because he's atheist? Does any of that sound remotely unrealistic among fundamentalist lunatics?


Doesn't seem unrealistic, I would disown my son if he turns into a Cardinals fan.
 
2012-02-15 03:24:05 PM
Spare the rod, spoil the little queer.
 
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