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Ex-Gay Leader of Christian Cult Accused of Murdering Wife
The leader of a Christian prayer group in the Kansas City, Mo., area is suspected of being behind the murder of his wife, whose death was first thought to be a suicide, the Kansas City Star reports.
The newspaper reports that members of the group, which is connected to the International House of Prayer, a virulently anti-gay group, claimed that the groups leader, Tyler Deaton, was against homosexuality because he struggled with being gay himself. "He struggled with it, but he overcame it," a member of the group told the Star. "It was a victory."
Now, some suspect that Deaton, who was regarded as the groups "spiritual leader," may have been involved with the death of his wife, Bethany Deaton, 27, whose body was found the night before Halloween in the back of her van. Soon after she died, 23-year-old Micah Moore, a member of the prayer group, turned himself into authorities and told them that Tyler Deaton put him up to murdering his wife. He also revealed the horrific acts that allegedly went on behind the groups doors.
According to the Star, several members of the group lived in Tyler Deatons home in Grandview, Mo., which is about 16 miles south of Kansas City. The Star reports that there were a number of "young adults making sex part of their religious experience" in the clan and the groups men allegedly sexually assaulted Bethany Deaton for months.
http://www.edgeonthenet.com/news/crime//139114/ex-gay_leader_of_christian_cult_accused_of_murdering_wife
freshwest
(53,661 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)God made me gay.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)did I know Tyler Deaton?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)There is violence there. Suppression of one's feelings coupled with the belief that it is a horrible sin and abomination is a recipe for a horribly negative outcome. For every action there is a reaction is not just a law of physics. It is a law of the mind and society.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Better than decades of ongoing abuses.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)for those who attempt it.
I suspect that this is a somewhat extreme example of one of these unfortunate attempts.
So very sad.
Equality and Acceptance.
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)who are trying to suppress and deny themselves and hate who they are. That path can only end in ruin. Poor woman.