Georgia County Sheriff’s department ‘paid evangelicals to turn lesbian straight’
More wingnuts trying to pray away the gay….
Amanda Booker, who is now in custody over a separate incident, is suing officials after she claims Bartow County Sheriff’s Department in Georgia forced her to attend gay conversion therapy instead of taking her to a drug rehabilitation centre.
Ms Booker claims that the incident that took place in April 2010 violated her constitutional rights and left her traumatised. She says that her family had asked police to commit her to a psychiatric hospital because of a drug addiction, but ignoring a court order, she was transferred into the care of two self-styled evangelical Christians, Chris and Donna McDowell.
Her lawyers claim that officials including Lieutenant Mark Mayton paid the couple $600 out of public funds to convert her sexuality. Anthony Perrotta, her lawyer told the GA Voice: ‘She’s not doing well. She’s not getting the care she needs for her drug addiction. She’s hurting. My first priority is to get her out of prison.’