THERE is a chilling feature in the latest issue of the US magazine, Details, which suggests that the practice of casting out “demons of homosexuality” from mainly young gay folk in Pentacostal and evangelical churches in the US may be far more common than people might imagine.
The truly shocking part, says the writer Matt McAllester is that:
A church sign in the US advertising bingo and gay exorcism
God-fearing gays keep signing up for the traumatic ritual.
He focuses on the case of Kevin Robinson, 20, a truly messed up life member of the Holy Ghost Temple Church in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Since he was 16, Robinson has been exorcised at least ten times – yet still is gay.
Even his mother has tried exorcising him. Vivian Robinson, a registered nurse who is a high-ranking elder in the church, insists that to deliver someone of demons is an act of love and care  – a noble struggle to save the subject from the clutches of the Devil.
I deal with spiritual warfare a lot. We believe things can be cast out through the blood of Jesus and the faith and calling on God’s power . . . I have cast the spirit out of Kevin. Oh, my God, it’s a lot of work.
The last time she tried to exorcise Kevin was two years ago, in the bathroom of her house. She spread oil on Kevin’s head and began to pray, with her hands pressing on his head and abdomen.
He was over the toilet vomiting as I began to call out the spirits.
Kevin, or something inside Kevin, started to scream.
Said Kevin’s mad mother:
I mean a horrific scream, like none you’ve ever heard. Because that spirit didn’t want to come out. But then it began to yield.
After about 20 minutes, Kevin unleashed a stream of shouted profanities. At one point Vivian asked the demon its name. The demon seemed to emerge from Kevin, she says, speaking its name in Latin in a very deep voice. When McAllester asked Vivian what the name was, she goes silent for a moment.
I really wouldn’t want to say that name.
He asked her if she could spell the name.
I really don’t even want to pronounce it. I don’t even want to give it the recognition.
Vivian Robinson does not believe that Kevin was born gay. She insists:
God never makes mistakes.
She believes that a rapist passed a homosexual spirit to her son when he was 16. Kevin acknowledges that the rape did occur but denies that it is what made him gay.
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June 7th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Vivian Robinson said, “He was over the toilet vomiting as I began to call out the spirits”.
Ha ha poor Kevin! The only spirit his mam called out was an excess of Jack Daniels, no wonder he swore at her. I assume she mistook his vomit for ectoplasm.
The power of Christ compels you!
The power of Christ compels you!
etc.
June 7th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
If they are minors, as many are at these travesties, it’s child abuse. If they are not then someone needs to be looking at common assault charges. They consented, but were they competent to consent under so much pressure?
Happens almost everywhere, one way or another. Supernatural explanations never end well.
June 7th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
I wonder if the name called out by the spirit was Freddie Mercury?
June 7th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
“…speaking its name in Latin….”
How does one speak a name in Latin? Was it a Latin name? Why would a demon have a Latin name?
June 7th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Everytime I read something like this I feel relief at having escaped but sad that others continue to suffer through their belief in this crap. Unless they escape the self-hatred screws them up for good.
June 7th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
More to the point, Mikespeir, if the “spirit” is using the guy’s vocal chords to speak, why would it sound any different to him? They never seem to think of that one! I think I would also “unleash a stream of shouted profanities” if anyone tried this on me. They’ve been watching too many horror films!
June 7th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
It is a sorry state of affairs when a biblical scholar with three graduate degrees in history, 650 articles in humanist journals, and 45 published books, cannot write for a nontheist website without becoming a punching bag for an unlearned, unteachable poseur, so intellectually challenged that he can argue that a biblical passage does not mean what it clearly does mean, whose only means of attracting attention is to unleash vicious, ad hominem paranoia against persons who have forgotten more than the poseur will ever know. Until the dispenser of such abuse is flushed, I will be writing only for the journals in nine countries that appreciate my expertise and allow my professional conclusions to be disputed only by persons with comparable qualifications.
June 7th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
“God never makes mistakes…”
Ah hah hah hah haaaa…. That is such a risible remark, it has to be made by an utter ignoramus.
June 7th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
“We believe things can be cast out through the blood of Jesus and the faith and calling on God’s power . . .”
Sounds an awful lot like witchcraft to me..
June 7th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Bloody woman needs prosecuting.
June 8th, 2010 at 1:52 am
God never makes mistakes, when the human population is too high he makes humans less likely to increase the population, using means such as homosexuality.
What? It makes as much sense as her version if not more.
June 8th, 2010 at 2:15 am
I mean a horrific scream, like none you’ve ever heard. Because that spirit didn’t want to come out. But then it began to yield.
He was screaming because you were making him vomit by putting him through a bizarre nonsense ritual your imaginary friend told you to, rather than accepting and loving him for himself, you mad old cunt.
June 8th, 2010 at 2:19 am
V. Robinson was quoted:
“God never makes mistakes.”
He’s got an advantage on that gamefield, he doesn’t exist. Let’s take a look at the rest of HIS creation: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750604/
or maybe this:http://borngay.procon.org/view.....eID=000162
Homosexuality is a function of nature. And while we don’t understand it, we do know it is part of the mechanism of nature. The Devil didn’t invent it to piss of Yahweh. It has always been there, and always will be, and despite reading scriptures, performing ridiculous rituals, victimizing those already victimized by social stigma, and throwing blessed water and kissing crosses, they are still gay, and always will be.
There is absolutely nothing more cruel that you can do to a loved one than force them to live a life as someone they are not.
harwood said:
“so intellectually challenged that he can argue that a biblical passage does not mean what it clearly does mean,”
Well, harwood, you would know about that. I’m a non-theist, and your political spin pisses me off, too.
NeoWolfe
June 8th, 2010 at 5:26 am
Well, Haewood, I won’t care for a biblical passage written thousands odf years ago by ancient, outdated moralists. The Declaration of Human Rights has supoerseded the crap of Leviticusand ol’homophobic St Paul.
What ignorance and crass stupiditi in this woman! This is child abuse of the worst kinfd. I’m Gay and I thank GOD for making me gay!
June 8th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Angelo Ventura: Dr Harwood is referring to a completely different matter in his post above, concerning comments which NeoWolfe has made on previous threads. As you were obviously not aware of that it is no wonder that you were somewhat confused! You are right in what you say, of course.
June 8th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
‘The obscenity of God-fearing gays signing up for exorcism’ should have been the caption. How sick can people be made that they stick to a cult that teaches them to hate themselves so much that they try to be cured?
June 8th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Alan (7th June, Freddie Mercury comment). You’re a cunt
June 8th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Funny how they have such a problem with The Gays but no problem violating the Biblical prohibition against gambling–twice a week no less.
June 9th, 2010 at 4:39 am
Bjohn said:
“Dr Harwood is referring to a completely different matter in his post above.”
Response: Well, it’s easy to be misunderstood. In a chatroom, they can’t read your facial expressions, they can’t hear your tone of voice, or read your body language.
But, I understood harwood’s post to mean that he had been trolling on fundie sites trying to convince them that he was qualified to rewrite THEIR bibles, too. This would not surprise me since he’s tried it on this site. He apparently has access to earlier manuscripts of the tent dweller scribblings than any other archaeologist on the planet, and he is so astute that he can decipher those writing, and authenticate them in such a way that it should set science upon it’s ear. Given the documentation, I might become an admirerer, but he’s a charlatan, he just make’s up shit and calls it fact. Three college degrees of bullshit.
NeoWolfe
September 12th, 2010 at 2:35 am
Seriously? This article makes me laugh. I looked it up becuase I got my hair cut today in an alternative style salon and they had the picture from this article on their wall with a few other humerous pictures. The thing that I love to point out the most is how much these churches push the idea of acceptance and not judging, yet here’s a woman forcing her son to puke over the toilet and think he isn’t good enough for the world because they don’t approve of his sexual preferance. These people are jokes and have no clue how to teach the way of God in the way He intended it.