Hi :)

I’m a user on this instance and also mod of a community on this instance about atheistic/nonthesitic Satanism. We are not CoS, nor TST, we are called Global Order of Satan (link is in my profile). Many of our members across the world are lgbtqia+ , possibly even a majority but we don’t really keep formalised records so its hard to say for sure.

Our UK Order (of whom I am a member) are looking into starting a campaign into the religion based abuse of conversion therapy. Obviously we knew it happened but we weren’t aware things like exorcism were used and this clearly falls within our, uh, areas of interest!

This is a delicate subject and I have no wish to trigger anyone but if anyone wanted to share (anonymised) experiences they may have had with religion-based conversion ‘therapy’ (I keep using scarequotes as its clearly pseudoscience) via DM with me, they would be very helpful in giving us some background. If you are not happy with DMing then I am also on Matrix (links also in bio) or you can mail me leraje gosatan com - you can get free anonymous email forwarding here

Edit: Anonymous cryptpad form here - Markdown keeps killing the link. you’ll need to copy/paste this: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/SqtKYw8b2pa%20a4u2EU0OFN9-6l5E3qGVSt9r6-U%20XQo/

    • LerajeOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      It was Markdown screwing the link :(

      • Of the Air (cele/celes)
        1·
        2 days ago

        Are you sure? We still see the %20s in the link instead of pluses.

        When copied it still leads to an invalid URL on our end.

        Edit: it seems lemmy really does not want to put the pluses in no matter what we do, so users will just have to convert the %20 to +, sadly.

        • LerajeOPEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Yeah I know, its not great, but Lemmy just kills the link if I put them in. I copy/pasted it as it is now and it seemed OK.

          • Of the Air (cele/celes)
            1·
            2 days ago

            Ah, perhaps it is just the browser we are using then. However, if any users have problems with it then it’s worth noting that any %20 should be a +.