In the parents' defense, they tried shooting their laptops first.

LucklessWonder: So, this takes a bunch of gay kids, isolates them in their own camp with other gay kids to cure the gay out of them?

Are we sure it's not just a convenient dating hot spot? This whole thing is fruitier than Marcus Bachmann

No, you've got it all wrong. You know how when you're a kid and your dad catches you with a cigarette, so he makes you smoke the whole pack at once so that the coughing turns you away from them forever? This is the same thing, except with cock.

Hi Mom, Hi Dad,

Thanks for kidnapping me and sending me to Central America. I'm having a great time here at camp. They're teaching us some cool stuff! Fishing, arts & crafts, firearms training! I'm still gay, of course. Can't wait to get back to the states and show you all that I've learned.

Watch your backs,
Keith

If repression and military training turns people straight, why did they work so hard to keep gays out of the military?

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.

pxsteel: Coach putting his foot my ass a couple of times, most likely kept me out of jail.

was that coach a Sandusky and was it really his foot?

Bluemookie: My son's mother sent him away to a "lite" version of this in central Michigan.

That has to be the most polite and sterile way of saying "vile, venom-spewing, back stabbing c*nt" that I ever did read.

But I'm a Cheerleader.

DON'T PRAY AWAY THE GAY, SPRAY AWAY THE GAY (Pops like the lid on a 55 gallon drum)

Parents who do this should be nailed to a cross.

Bloody William: These people are farking monsters.

Nothing in Leviticus against that.

My ex sent her daughter to a camp in Utah the same week we permantently separated. A few months later she bragged to me that the kid was no longer on medication and doing great, proving it wasn't a mental health problem. My response was, "so her running away, binge drinking, farking strangers, and violent attacks on us were because she just needed some actual discipline as I had once suggested?" We never spoke again.

pxsteel: It was figurative. Run laps until you fall down from exhuastion, 4-5 hours. Mow the baseball feild with a push mower, if you really farked up you had to do the football feild too. If he had to come pick your punk a$$ up because you really really farked up, you had to do the practice feild as well, for good measure.

why, when you put it that way its almost exactly the same as your parents legally signing custody of you to a for-profit corporation located in a 3rd world, letting them kidnap you in the middle of the night and then subjecting you to years of mental and physical torture with no escape or recourse because of such serious offenses as "not dating the right boy" or "being a homosexual." You are so right, they should just suck it up because they totally deserve that for their screwing it. thank you for helping me understand how those things are totally similar and therefore your anecdotes are helpful and not the prattling of someone with an IQ roughly equivelent to a herring!

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Sounds like a blast!!

Philip Francis Queeg: pxsteel: WhyteRaven74: Johnnyknox: You know things must be looking bleak for Democrats when you see the old "feel sorry for a gay teen and hate Christians" thread!

What does this have to do with Democrats or Republicans? It's appalling no matter who you are.


Really, get a farking grip. It's a farking military highschool style bootcamp. Being a teenager sucks, it just sucks a little bit more for these kids. If your parents put you in a military school/ bootcamp, chances are, you have been farking up pretty good.

Yeah farking up like saying "Mom, Dad, I think I may be gay."

If your kid farks up like that, I bet you'll ship them off for some punishment, right?

No, you hug them and tell them you love them no matter what. Then you ask them who they, in a special way, like more, Justin Beiber or Selena Gomez.

1) fake a miraculous cure using the power of Christ. Praise him!
2) return home, murder parents.
3) write a book while waiting for your trial, make millions.
4) use millions plus this story to get off scot-free.
5) move to San Francisco and be a gay rights hero.

I blame the Obama Administration and their pro-gay legislation. Good Christan parents have NO CHOICE but to send their children to such rehabillitation centers. What is a good Christan parent supposed to do when Obama contatsly confussion and corrupts young minds with his socialist adgenda. It sucks from the souls of out children the freedom and liberty to be staight.

-Vote Santorum

Lunaville: Parents like this absolutely do not care about their child's' welfare. All they care about is power: how much do they have and how egregiously can they wield it over another; preferably smaller, weaker; person.

Rwa2play: NeverDrunk23: Fundies are poison to everything.

Sadly, this. They exist to show us the worst of our natures, so that we can strive to show the best in our natures.

Actually, I'm kinda envious.

Here's a group of people that put themselves above everyone else. Different races, religions, creeds, sexual orientations, income levels... heck, even women are inferior.

Now, all my life I've all "we're all created equal" and stuff. But, man, these guys are like kings in their own kingdoms! With God himself on their side to tell everyone how their patriarchy is best for everyone.

Lucky bastards. I could do that!

Man, I am so glad I was not born a woman or gay in the United States.

WhyteRaven74: Johnnyknox: You know things must be looking bleak for Democrats when you see the old "feel sorry for a gay teen and hate Christians" thread!

What does this have to do with Democrats or Republicans? It's appalling no matter who you are.

I think he is saying Republicans support this kind of thing.

I used to run a program to turn bi-curious teenage girls straight, but then that whole "statutory rape" thing ruined my business model.

miss diminutive: Wayne 985: miss diminutive: fracto73: miss diminutive: 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?

Honestly? No. They are concerned with their child's happiness. They just believe that his is necessary for the child to be happy in the long term. They view homosexuality as a mental illness, and unpleasant treatments are sometimes required to cure an illness.

A mental illness that affects somewhere between 5-10% of the population? That's a pandemic.

/shut. down. everything

I caught gay from touching a door handle.

Was it a door handle to an extra wide men's bathroom stall? Because there might be some confounding variables there.

Don't throw that back at me. I have a wide stance.

whidbey: Because bigotry towards homosexuals is exactly the same thing as taxing unhealthy lifestyles. Nice troll.

If you're going to charge me an extra 50 cents on my smokes, I should be allowed to shout at and beat up gay kids. It's only fair.

Bloody William: stonelotus: LOL, all this butt-hurt and not one mention of domestic military schools, boot camps, or academies.

Probably because as horrible as they are, they're on American soil and beholden to American laws.

This shiat is treating your kids with the same care we treat suspected terrorists.

A veritable Guantanamo Gay

So here's the plan:

Start your own offshore boarding school. Market it as jesus saves from the gay via jesus powers or whatever these parents think it's going to do. Get their tuition and their kid.

Take the kid and, along with a good education and decent personal living situation, teach him how to come to terms with the fact that he has a personal characteristic which his family hates. Keep this part of it secret or else you'll spoil the marketing and won't be able to save any more children.

miss diminutive: fracto73: miss diminutive: 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?

Honestly? No. They are concerned with their child's happiness. They just believe that his is necessary for the child to be happy in the long term. They view homosexuality as a mental illness, and unpleasant treatments are sometimes required to cure an illness.

A mental illness that affects somewhere between 5-10% of the population? That's a pandemic.

/shut. down. everything

I caught gay from touching a door handle.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: You know Who else had a camp for kids?


/too soon

Fire Island?

djkutch: Stuff like this makes me think there should be some sort of war on Christianity.

This camp needs to be the next place SEAL Team Six visits.

Don't leave your accountabilabuddy alone in your room with easy access to rope and a high rafter.

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.

This is the best idea ever. Maybe a drill instructer can finally convince the evangelicals to stop abusing their children.

All the cool kids are going to camp, why not?

MaudlinMutantMollusk: You know Who else had a camp for kids?

L.Ron Hubbard.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: I really need a good word to convey a strong feeling of disgust coupled with an absolute lack of surprise

"Republicans"?