The Internet’s managed to dox trolls, shut down creepshots, get druggie mayors fired, expose racists and bigots, support bathroom rights for the T in LGBT, and take down a few rapists, I have to believe the Internet can get a 17 year old girl out of a backwoods Christian version of an anti-gay Clockwork Orange…

Heartlight: The place you go to kill that light in your heart.

These places always have the most innocuous but creepy names.

I’m disappointed at the lack of a “BURN THIS FUCKER DOWN!” stretch goal, but I suppose subjecting them to public scrutiny will work too.

They are doing her incalculable psychological harm while telling her that her lifestyle is dirty and awful. And her parents are the enablers. The whole pray the gay away lie is one of the most cruel and damaging things done to young women and men in the name of some bullshit religion.

I can’t believe I just read that. I’m so sick right now...
They make it sound like they’re helping the child as they mentally and emotionally destroy them in the name of a “Loving god”.

“allowing her to live away from her current scene, with relatives or at a place like Heartlight.”

Or... imprisoning someone at a place…

She’s probably being “home-schooled” while she’s there. Which from what I’ve seen of most home-schoolers around here consist of nothing but chores and hours upon hours of bible verses. They are taught that pretty much every bio-science advancement of the last 200 years is a lie and an affront to god.

So... like a re-education camp, but Christian? Any GTers down that way who can do a late-nite breakout?

Right? In their effort to "save" her, they're pulling her out of high school and totally derailing her plans to go to college and such.

The “Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act” (S. 2054, H.R. 1981) was crafted to help combat these types of situation and has been stuck in the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education since November.

Looks to me like it’s definitely “Heartlight Ministries”. Here’s a link about teen sexuality:
https://www.heartlightministries.org/2016/02/teen-g…

It’s amazing what Freedom of Religion let’s people get away with.

California has banned them, but even if all 50 states outlaw this type of abuse therapy, they’ll just relocate to other countries like the Dominican Republic (where the documentary Kidnapped For Christ was filmed).

So, wait. Is she not even being allowed to go to school? She’s confined to this camp with little-to-no contact with the outside world, so she can be ‘cured’ of something that ain’t even a GD disease?

I don’t know much about these camps, but from the little I know they seem just a small step up from victorian asylums or KZs.

Starred for “shitlords,” and also for the substance of you comment.

Her parents are surely the same type of bible thumping hypocrites that worry themselves over the “unborn”, but have no problem sending their actual living, already born daughter to a place that is effectively imprisoning her and forcing her to change who she is against her will.

Heaven help any poor child sent to these bullshit prison-farms.

I’m so glad for Sarah that not all of her family are shitlords. My heart breaks for the kids at the facility that aren’t that lucky. All of these military-style/hard labor camps for “troubled” teens should be illegal, they're abuse straight up.

light teasing, insults, whatever - same diff

20 days from now they’re gonna look duuuuumb.