After the all-night bender, he prayed to the porcelain god in the alley behind the bar.

The group condemned programs that attempt to pray away the gay, calling them dangerous and pseudoscientific.

Many survivors recount how church leaders attempted to pray the gay away, a practice now widely condemned for the harm it causes.

Every holiday, my mother repeats the saying the family that prays together stays together, and we all feel a little closer afterward.