Liverpool Echo goes undercover at gay ‘cure’ church offering ‘dangerous’ starvation therapy
Reporter Josh Parry visited the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries equipped with a hidden microphone.
A Liverpool church which offered a “cure” for homosexuality through a “dangerous” three-day starvation programme was uncovered by an ECHO investigation.
The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, which has a branch on Breck Road, Anfield, was found offering gay people the chance to “cure” themselves of their homosexuality through a relentless prayer session involving three days without food or water.
An ECHO reporter posing as a member of the public questioning their sexuality was invited for a private counselling session with the church’s assistant pastor, where he was told that being gay is biologically wrong, and that by undergoing prayer therapy it could be corrected to ‘allow him to marry and have children.’
[Editor’s note: we can expect many more of these ‘stings’ in the future, beginning with versions of pastoral practice that most Western Christians would not condone and consider extreme, like this one, and then attempting to shame and drive underground any means of helping people move away from unwanted sexual attractions, however sensitive.]
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