Sean Cormie and his boyfriend, Gary Gardner, attended service to make Cormie's family proud. Now they want the church shuttered for good.
Eventually, his sister convinced the congregants to let him go, saying that God was in her brother, and he should speak freely. By the time he was released, Cormie was bruised and scratched during the ordeal, left with a black eye, and was temporarily knocked unconscious when he was allegedly slammed into the ground multiple times by his stepfather and other church members as they, according to Cormie's statement,"tried to pray the gay away.
Local police told News9 that they're not commenting on the incident, citing that it's an ongoing investigation and they"simply don't know what happened yet." "This began as a family matter that escalated. Our church would never condone restraint of any person unless they were engaged in violent activity. There is much more to this incident, and we are cooperating fully with law enforcement to hopefully bring all of the facts to light as a rush to judgment is not in anyone's best interest," a spokesperson for the First Assembly of God church told News9 Monday."I just want to say the church should pay for what they did to us ...
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