Good question! I was asking myself that yesterday, through tears of despair andnoutrage, as I watched a documentary about an evangelical Christian school in the Dominican Republic. The school was run and staffed by Evangelical Christians from the U.S., as a place for U.S. Evangelical Christian parents to send "troubled" teens.

One of the teens in the documentary was "troubled" by debilitating panic attacks that often left her with a racing heart, shortness of breath, and loss of consciousness.

She needed medical care but what she got from the arrogant Christian staff at the school was a diagnosis of demon possession. She also got a raft of punishments, from being beaten with a paddle and leather strap, to being forced to exercise until she coughed blood, to having food withheld and forced into long sessions of solitary confinement.

Another "troubled" teen was there because he was gay. His Evangelical Christian mother told him she could never love a gay son. He was so "troubled" that he'd been at the top of his class at a good high school. He was a star in the school's music program. His teacher's adored him. He had bright college prospects ahead of him.

Does Evangelical Christian parents had him snatched by force in the middle of the night and sent to the Dominican Republic to that school.

He was beaten, held in solitary confinement, and all the rest. His friends and teachers had no idea where he was, and he knew they must be terribly worried about him. So he managed to get a letter smuggled out letting them know what was going on.

School staff found out about the letter and punished him severely for it. Physically and psychologically.

He wanted to leave after he turned 18, but his parents and the school staff refused.

Some of his former high school friends and teachers flew to the Dominican Republic and went to the school with the assistance of the US consul. The Evangelical Christian staff lied and said he wasn't there. They had actually hidden him.

Eventually, one of his former teachers engaged a lawyer and U.S. federal judge issued a writ of habeus corpus, which finally convinced the school to let him go.

But nobody went to prison for holding him against his will. That's how arrogant conservative Christians are. Kidnapping and holding people prisoner. Torturing them. For having panic attacks or for being gay.