Pray Away movie review - Breakfast All Day

[@DanielFerreira-qx4yv]

Thank you for this conversation, I just watched this doc and I hope it starts a conversation worldwide about these dilosional entities that breathe devastation. Even those "leaders" were completely devastated for what they have done. I'm from Portugal and lucky grow up on a atheist family, Portugal itself is not known for these type of atrocities, but there's so much we don't know - ence the importance of starting to have a voice, a legal one, that can shut down these shitshows.

[@emilybraverman4299]

you can tell Jeffery us putting on a show even by his voice. Whenever he talks to the camera or prays for strangers his voice is weirdly deep, it really bugged me and I couldn’t tell why, until i heard a glimpse of his real voice when he was speaking to his friends at some meeting, if you notice his voice becomes super high pitched (probably the way it naturally is). Idk just a small detail that weirded me out. In the conversion camps they teach guys to deepen their voice so

[@crithon]

interesting, not to derail too much. There's a wonderful film starting Natashia Lyonne and Clea DuVall "But I'm a Cheerleader" which handled this pastel comically into a beautiful lesbian romance.

[@MarcosIsABaritone]

So funny. And came out at a time where coming out was still a HUGE ordeal.

[@crithon]

@@MarcosIsABaritone 1999, good year for films.

[@jonathanarnold1844]

I feel bad for Jeffrey. I hope the woman’s daughter is okay. I wish I could reach out to her.

[@BanAllMusic]

I said I wasn't going to watch this because I grew up in an evangelical environment. My brother and I aren't on speaking terms since he is obsessed with "speaking truth" about queer issues while not having an issue with our biological father who was physically abusive to our mom. Then I started your review. Stopped it. Watched the trailer. Finished the review. Here I am watching it. Like Alonso's husband, infuriated and engaged. Everyone's coming out story is different, but I can't excuse preying on vulnerable people to fill a void you're too afraid to face.

[@alphacause]

Irony is lost on so many Christian conservatives. You have a group named Exodus, devoted to "liberating" people from homosexuality. The group's name comes from the 2nd book of the Bible, the Book of Exodus, where the Jewish people are liberated from Egyptian bondage. The problem with using that book as a metaphor for spiritual liberation is that the continuation of that liberation story shows the liberated Jewish people engaging in ethnic cleansing and slavery themselves

[@paesitopaez4302]

Love this conversations. Looking foward to this one!

[@tcu1099]

I'll check it out. Always tricky to get in the right headspace to watch media that is a gut punch. If anything, I'm curious to see what a current leader is peddling to those that will listen.

[@CorneliaAmiri]

Good review. This documentary was well done, good investigative reporting. What these people were put through is heartbreaking. I don’t feel it’s religious beliefs that are the problem as much as it is religious leaders abusing those beliefs to try to control others

[@dakuten7883]

The thing that makes me feel so sad is reading reviews from google where people are still spouting the nonsense the documentary sought to shame.

[@kapa1611]

this reminds me of a movie called "But I'm a Cheerleader". it's a comedy about a cheerleader going to gay conversion camp. i haven't seen it in ages, but i remember liking it :)

[@carolinehaf21]

Was riveted by this since I grew up in this same evangelical setting and now out of it and feel so much for people who have tried to deny and hate themselves for so long believing to their core that God can never love them. This is an amazing look into it and I hate that there's always going to be some form of this "therapy" while churches continue to preach that God hates gays when God is love.

[@crushinglove7087]

forever jealous of alonso's math

[@shannonfoley5993]

So am i

[@ttttypes]

Evangelical/fundamentalist christianity should be stripped of its tax-exempt status

[@johnnolan5579]

Totally agree.

[@alphacause]

If the evangelical community believes in the efficacy of prayer to yield a greater good, then why don't they pray away obesity? After all, when it comes to existential threats, the very small minority of gay people are no threat to them. By contrast, obesity is rampant among the evangelical community, and it causes premature death and destroys people's quality of life. So maybe evangelicals need to start offering their devotions and supplications towards the aim of eradicating expanding waistlines instead of worrying about what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes.

[@augierivera3290]

Dastmalchian: Dah-small-chin

[@MrWood-qd6kr]

Becket Cook addresses this very well. If the creator of the documentary wanted to be honest about this issue, she would have presented both sides. To deny the reality that people change and leave the LGBTQ lifestyle because they want to is disingenuous.

[@jonathanarnold1844]

I also think Jeffrey blames being trans on all the hardships he had... I’m saying he because that’s the pronouns he goes by.