L’uomo gay sottoposto a “esorcismo” nella chiesa di Sheffield riceve un risarcimento
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/gay-man-exorcism-sheffield-church-compensation?CMP=share_btn_url
di Lennie_finch
L’uomo gay sottoposto a “esorcismo” nella chiesa di Sheffield riceve un risarcimento
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/gay-man-exorcism-sheffield-church-compensation?CMP=share_btn_url
di Lennie_finch
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>After publication of the Barnardo’s report, the church said: “We have accepted the outcomes of the first investigation and are saddened that one of our community was not cared for in the way we would have liked. We sincerely apologised to them for this.”
I mean, they refused to admit to *anything* until Barnardo’s stepped in and concluded that this probably happened, so this is a pretty fucking disingenuous apology.
More to the point, how could this have happened without a total failure of church management? Did these two prayer-leaders just decide to go off script and carry out a quick exorcism? It wouldn’t surprise me, but the churches leadership has a responsibility to both identify and keep the whackadoodles in check.
I had a gay friend who had this, I myself did do a few things where we stood in a circle around people and put our hands on his head. While it wasn’t an exorcism it was like the same thing.
So, he is seeking compensation for a totally voluntary act that we went along with?
The pair sou d like muppets, but is it too much to expect a grown man to be able to say “Nah. Fuck this”?
I have always wondered with these examples of successful “Conversion therapy” has anyone actually held up a picture of Henry Cavill and tested their reaction?
Reading the word “exorcism” in 2025… Seems like plenty of people are stuck in Middle Ages, sadly.
Starmer furiously pretending he didn’t visit a church that does exactly this, twice.
I’m not sure how much sympathy to muster when he was a fully consenting 26 year old at the time.
Currently playing Banishers: New Eden and this is like straight out of that game. It’s set in the 1600s… over 400 years ago.
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A lot of clever clogs in here giving it the old “He should simply not have volunteered to do this!” as though coercion, internalised homophobia, peer pressure, and power dynamics don’t exist. Wow, genius, if only you’d been there to impart that pearl of wisdom!
There’s this growing cult of cynicism in this country where people think being coldly sceptical makes them look smart. It doesn’t. It just makes you sound daft. “Oh yeah, this was a compo scam.” Do you hear yourselves?
Did he consent to it? Was he held against his will?
The answers to these would seem pretty important yet there is no mention of them.
“Matthew Drapper at C of E’s St Thomas Philadelphia was told that ‘sexual impurity’ had let demons enter his body”