A Stitch in Haste

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"Refuge," the nightmarish reparative-therapy involuntary confinement facility run by the (ridiculously misnamed) group Love in Action (a group that brags about how it is fed its victims by the radical Evangelical bigot complex, Focus on the Family) has been — their term — "dissolved."

Refuge was exposed, in large part by blogs, back in 2005 when a teenager named "Zach" (later identified as Zach Stark) chronicled his story on his (now private) MySpace page. The bloggers caught the attention of the media, which caught the attention of the authorities.

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It also inspired filmmaker Morgan Fox to begin filming the documentary, "This Is What Love In Action Looks Like."

This evening at the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference in Irvine, California, we screened short excerpts of several documentary films including Fox's unfinished work. Just before Fox's extended trailer was shown, we learned that he had to make a very quick last-minute change to the ending today. And when we saw that ending, the crowd erupted in both cheers and tears as we saw that Love In Action Director John Smid confirmed that the "Refuge" youth program has been "dissolved."

Cheers and tears? Now that sounds like "love in action" to me.

Via Straight, Not Narrow. More thoughts at Republic of T.

(Cross-linked to Blog Against Theocracy.)