Ad Dominum

From Waymon Hudson:

The request to join a new group came through my Facebook page. The group was called “Friends of Bryce“, which could have been anything, but had a note attached that said “Please Help.”

When I clicked over to the group, an all too familiar tale unfolded. Bryce Faulkner, a young gay man from Arkansas, had gone missing after his parents had discovered he was gay. They had gotten into their college-aged son’s email account and discovered messages between Bryce and his boyfriend.

The parents then gave Bryce an ultimatum- enter an extensive and severe “therapy” program or lose all their support for college and living expenses. For a young man from a conservative small town whose entire life, including his job, was tied to his parents, who had nowhere to go and no one to turn to, there really was no choice.

Bryce was sent to 14 week long conversion therapy camp and has not been heard from again.

I ask again: is it any wonder there is so much animus against Christianity from so many gay people?

“Love the sinner, hate the sin” apparently justifies extortion in the eyes of these “loving” parents, and many others who hold fast to this mindset. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I cannot see the Gospel imperative in this sort of behavior which amounts to imprisonment and abuse.

My prayer is that, once finished with the “treatment” program of spiritual, psychological, and physical abuse, Bryce will find the loving Parent he never had in the man Jesus, and not those who claim to follow him while perverting his message.

Woe to those who seek to imprison with the only Message that frees us.

Pax et bonum.

(H/t Peterson Toscano)