An insightful and helpful documentary that serves as a message to those who are part of the LBGTQ community and to those Christians who believe that homosexuality is wrong.

As a person I am bisexual and I am also a Christian. I know that God loves me for the person I am, despite my sexuality.

I turn away from the idea of gay conversion therapy as I don't think it is helpful. In fact, as has been highlighted in this documentary, it can be incredibly destructive.

Of course, the church as a whole needs to wake up to the fact that it is not possible to pray the gay away. Not always, anyway. If there are those who believe they have been 'healed' of their homosexuality, then so be it. God bless you and I am happy for you.

However, for the majority, life is not that simple. For me, the repression of my sexuality led to destructive and addictive behaviours. I hid my sexuality because I worked for the church and was aware of the judgemental attitudes of my peers and church leaders. The pretence I had to lead damaged my life and led me down a road that God did not want for me.

If you are gay, bisexual, or anywhere else on the wide spectrum of sexuality, know that God loves you. Know that you don't have to change who you are intrinsically to be pleasing to God. Let Him guide you on the right way to live, whatever that means in the relationship you have with Him. If you're not yet a Christian, don't let the judgement of some Christians turn you away. You are loved, you are special, and you are beautiful, and God loves you for who you are.

The Bible can be interpreted in many ways and much of it needs to be looked at in context. This is important to understand if you're a straight Christian or a gay Christian. Don't twist it for your own agenda. Let God speak the truth to you, whatever that may be. But above all, be gracious to those around you, seek to understand the experiences of those around you, and DON'T judge others and make them feel 'less than.'

I hope this documentary offers hope to those who are struggling to align their faith with their sexual desires. And I also hope it serves as a message to those individuals and groups who are trying to 'convert’ Christians coming to terms with their own sexualities. Let them be themselves, as while you think you are doing a service to God, you may in fact be doing a great disservice. It might be that you are harming them forever.

It's rare that I feel so much anger and devastation after watching a documentary, but Pray Away broke me.

I feel so sad for what these people went through, believing that they need to be saved or cured so much that they became leaders in the same movement that hurt them. And I'm so angry for all of the people that they went on to hurt with their messaging.

I'm happy that many of them were able to get out of this toxic cult and are now coming forward to talk about it, but at the same time I feel so much rage and sadness that this ever happened in the first place.

I hope people realize that this kind of conversion church therapy is still happening. I went through the same lectures and yuppity "support group" crap in 2016-17 in the LDS church. It was a support group for people with same sex attraction and the ideology of "it's not the thoughts or feelings that are the sin, it's the action that's the sin" was pushed down my throat so. damn. hard.

So much of this documentary feels intimately familiar in the worst possible way. It's so hard not to be angry at people who continue to push the idea that there is something wrong with you if you're queer.

I really hope that everyone who watches this will realize that it's okay to be who you are. It's okay to be gay or lesbian or queer. There is nothing about a group pushing a hate message that is holy or just and the idea that God condones that hatred is absolutely absurd.

More than anything, I hope that this documentary will reach the hearts of the people who believe that being gay is a sin and that homosexuality is something needing to be cured. I hope that they will realize how much harm they're causing by pushing their twisted idea of morality on other people. Maybe seeing into the lives of the people who bought into this message the most will give them the compassion they need to understand.

This documentary is gutting.