Oh, it’s my turn.
Holy shit. I read about it in the news when it was shut down, but didn’t have these horrifying details. The school was two towns away from mine. How could that be going on and we “neighbors” be oblivious?
I’m absolutely not surprised that so much of this shit is run by (and directed towards) Mormons. “Tough love” is the norm in Mormon families.
The religion of self professed “conservatives” never fails to be pure, distilled cruelty falsely labeled as kindness.
“Wait wait wait, I get to point at, scream at, and shame an already distressed woman, it costs me nothing to do so, and I get to call it kindness towards the unborn? You sonovabitch, I’m in!”
I’m bitterly disillusioned that so many so-called Christians entirely ignore all the things that their Christ said. That is exactly what led me to begin questioning my faith in the first place.
A lot of it is run by Mormons not just because of their religion, but because a lot of these places are in the Southwest for two major reasons - they can be EXTREMELY remote and isolated that way (try walking 2 hrs in Arizona or Utah in the middle of the summer, without water, after probably living on starvation-level rations for several weeks), and the laws down there are pretty lax on what constitutes child abuse IIRC (especially Utah). The worst ones are out-of-country - one of my former boyfriends was sent to a gay camp SOMEWHERE in the Caribbean, and a lot of them operate in places that are normally tax shelters for similar reasons (although I know some of the islands have managed to push these places out of business).
This is not the brat summer I’ve been hearing about, I assume?
I had a buddy get sent to a religious camp where he was abused and assaulted, because his parents found a joint in his bedroom.