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Gay couple violently attacked & held hostage in a church to 'turn them straight'
A gay couple says that they were attacked by a church’s congregation in attempt to convert them to heterosexuality.
Sean Cormie, 23, recently came out to his family in Blackwell, Oklahoma. Since then, his family has been trying to get him to go to church with them and to bring along his boyfriend, Gary Gardner.
On September 8, they finally went to The First Assembly of God Church with Cormie’s family. He said that he had already gone to that church’s service several times.
“I wanted to go to church to make my mom proud and make her happy,” he told Oklahoma News 4.
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