Amusingly or not, one of the top stories in today's edition of LGBTQ Nation is about a church school in Saskatchewan with a track record of conducting exorcisms combined with beatings to turn gay students straight.

A group of students have sued the school, asking the courts for compensation for the harm they suffered. School administrators say they've changed their minds and no longer believe demons cause people to be gay. The students who are suing note that the school today is run by many of the same people who conducted the exorcisms a few years ago.

When I was growing up, preachers often claimed that some mental illnesses were actually cases of demonic possession. I heard that in church many times, though without Locke's sneering insistence that mental illness must be demonic possession or that autism must also be demonic possession.

But I guess as a gay autistic person once diagnosed with PTSD, I've got all the demons going on. *dark chuckle*

I wrote yesterday about the Lambeth conference of the Anglican Church that's happening in the UK right now. I wrote to call out and morally condemn the Archbishop of Canterbury for affirming and empowering homophobic Anglican bishops in Africa who work to have LGBTQ people criminally punished. In doing so I wrote about a friend of mine in Nigeria who legitimately fears for his life at the hands of Christians who hate gay people.

I did not write that the church he grew up in insisted that gay people are possessed by demons. I did not write how that concept tormented him coming from respected religious leaders like the ones the Anglican Communion just empowered and affirmed.

But I should have.