Torturing your own child in the name of God

I am horrified by the story this young man tells and that it happened at the hands of his own father, a Southern Baptist missionary, is simply unimaginable to me.



From the Daily Mail:

'Tiny needles were stuck into my fingers and I was electrocuted': Victim of Baptist gay conversion therapy describes how he was tortured at 12:

• Beaten repeatedly by his father after innocently telling him, aged 12, that he was attracted to his friend

• Told he had AIDS, that he was the only gay person in the country and the government would kill him if they found out

• Hands burned and frozen with ice while he was shown images of men hugging

• Electrocuted for a month while shown explicit pictures of men

• Has since been excommunicated by his family and warned by his father that he will shoot him if he ever comes home