It looks like the bigotry of the father is being visited upon the son. Just a couple of days ago, I blogged about Zach, sent to an ex-gay boot camp by his small minded family. It turns out that Zach is indeed real, and his last name is S-------.
And wow, is his family ever small minded. Zach"s father is quoted on CBN (I won"t link, so as not to increase their Google PageRank):
We felt very good about Zach coming here because� to let him see for himself the destructive lifestyle, what he has to face in the future, and to give him some options that society doesn"t give him today,� S----- said. �Knowing that your son... statistics say that by the age of 30 he could either have AIDS or be dead.
Now, clearly, Mr. S is a pig. But I want to know what was left out in that bold ellipsis? CBN has already been ... shall we say "creative" with their editing.
Now I do think Mr. S is something of a bigoted nitwit, but it"s hard not to think that he"s doing what -- in his own mind -- is best for his son. After all, who wants their children to burn in hell for all eternity? But Mr. S has said that he put his kid in there so he wont "have AIDS or [be] dead" by the time he"s 30. Why, then, would he put his son in the care of a man that says he"d rather see his "patients" dead rather than still gay at the end of the program?
Updated (27 Aug. 2005): I took out the last name. The kid"s sixteen; doesn"t seem right to list his full name on the public Web.
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