Cure Thy Homosexuality:

Bruce Barton, a former student at the Mormon owned college, BYU (Brigham Young University) was on his way to work, as he received a phone call from the bishop at his local Mormon church, posing to be a detective. He asked Barton to stop by the church to help with an alleged crime; Barton did just that. When he arrived he was sat down and told that his name was on a list of twelve who had been identified by an anonymous source that he was a homosexual; a very strict taboo for the Mormon church. Barton was then taken into a back-room, where he was forced to strip and view pornographic images while being forced to drink a vomit-inducing drug, in order to be psychologically conditioned away from being Gay - a technique called, "aversive therapy."

These sessions went on for a some-odd week; each session lasting about an hour, and in that week, Barton attempted to commit suicide - three times. The last session lasted about three times longer than a typical session; Barton was administered electrodes to his wrists, chest, head, and genitals. He was then handed a remote control, that he was told to press whenever he saw something sinful, or something he either strongly liked or disliked. The button was attached the electrodes and delivered a high-voltage shock, enough to bring him to tears, not long after the session started. The men who running the "therapy" made it known to Barton that if he did not press the button, they would for him, and administer the shock. Every picture he was shown was of gay pornography, and he was administered over a hundred surges of electricity. Barton then explains that he does not know how many times the administration had to press the button for him, but he did say that a number of people on that list of 12 names committed suicide, two of them disappeared completely, and one ended up a psychological basket case with no sex drive at all. Barton is still alive today, and claims that the "therapy" the church administered was not only inhumane but Barton also says that the treatment did nothing, and he is still today, and out-and-proud Gay man, and has since attended several gay pride rallies and has since, left the church.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder Day Saints, has since then claimed that there ways have changed since then and no longer use aversive therapy as a treatment for homosexuality; Yet the number of suicides faced by the Gay youth in the LDS Church still remains at an all-time high, and the hate, intolerance, and bigotry also peeks above all else. If this is the true Mormon faith, then it can safely be said, that the faith isn't as pure as some would claim. Torture is not by any means religiously tolerant, and therefore shouldn't be turned a blind eye to. The Mormon church refuses to bring up anything in reference to aversive therapy today, and I can safely say; I understand why.