The Devil Made Her Do ItTommi Avicolli-Meccabyline‚ Jun. 30‚ 2009It’s like a bad scene out of a grade B horror flick or a front-page story in one of those sleazy supermarket rags, only it’s not funny: the Rev. Patricia McKinney and other elders of the Manifested Glory Ministries in Bridgeport, Connecticut performing an exorcism or a “casting out of spirits” on a gay teen in order to drive out what they claim are “homosexual demons.” In the 20-minute YouTube video (which has been taken down, but can still be found all over the internet), the boy is constantly shoved around the floor by elders and assaulted with screams such as, “Right now in the name of Jesus, I call the homosexuality, right now in the name of Jesus.” At times, the teen seems to be in pain, his body convulsing; he even vomits. |