Churches still performing exorcisms on LGBT members | 60 Minutes Australia

John Smid helped run a gay conversion therapy group for 22 years – before coming out as gay himself. He tells 60 Minutes that "horrific" exorcisms are still performed in many churches around the world and that the confronting scenes in Hollywood movie 'Boy Erased' are not far from the truth.

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