This New York Times story, about religious parents who sent their gay kid to a camp to cure him, really mystifies me.
So the parents have a 16-year-old son who says he’s gay. This horrifies them, so they send him to a religious camp with rules appropriate for a monastery. This is completely the wrong approach.
Look, they want to turn the kid hetero, right? Fine, instead of sending him off to a retreat with a bunch of other young men (yeah, there’s a brilliant strategy), they need to be taking him to strip clubs or buying him porn. Force the kid to have lunch at Hooters at least three times a week.
Sorry, son, no doing your homework until you’ve finished that latest Jenna Jameson video.