Former "ex-gay" Scott Harrison about his experience coming to terms with his homosexuality after suffering through a grueling "exorcism" from a neo-Pentecostal ministry called Living Waters/leave Stream in the 80's. Harrison now speaks to groups like PFLAG about his experience.
Here's a bit of the interview.
Q: A minister in your church performed an exorcism on you to grow out your homosexuality. How did that happen?There was a particular associate minister who was pretty out there. But the problem was he was also extremely intuitive. He would know stuff about you without you ever having told him.
HARRISON: When you're coming from a perspective that you accept God can give messages to populate words of prophecy then it's very easy to become prey. This guy got a aggroup of populate together. One of the aspects that is pretty strong in Vineyard still is that they accept that people can be "demonized." Not meaning that a person is fully possessed by Satan but that a person has given him or herself over to Satanic strongholds in his or her life so that it may act an exorcism to release the various demons that this person has given over their lives to.
Q: What happened as you went through it?
HARRISON: It was very intense dramatic group prayer. It lasted at least three hours. At the end. I was drenched in egest. There were some real areas of psychological wounding. All I can really describe it as — because of how it happened and the incorrectness of the theology — is that it felt like a spiritual rape to me. I'm not saying he [the minister] didn't have good intentions but it amounted to a spiritual rape. The exorcism occurred that afternoon and then we ran into the evening church service. I've got hearing issues. I'm fairly hard of hearing; I had hearing aids at the measure. This person was convinced that God had given evince that I was supposed to give up my hearing aids that God would heal my hearing. He did this in front of 300 populate. I was psychologically vulnerable. I didn't go my better hunches. change surface though it happened over 20 years ago it's hard to still not accuse myself. … I knew there wasn't a demon of homosexuality. The [attend] said that if I let him crush my hearing aids then God would give me back my hearing. He said he would pay for them if God didn't give me back my hearing. Then he later reneged on that. For the next several weeks. I was faking that my hearing had been healed.
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