The new documentary “Pray Away” takes on the rise of the religious conversion therapy movement and its attempts to “pray away the gay” and cure homosexuality. “Pray Away” charts how a group of five men struggling with their sexuality in the 1970s started a bible group within their Evangelical church to help them leave their “homosexual lifestyle.” The group quickly received more than 25,000 letters from people seeking help and soon, Exodus International, the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organization in the world was formed.
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