Five members of a North Carolina church were indicted Dec. 10 on charges of simple assault and kidnapping for allegedly beating a fellow member because he is gay. Matthew Fenner, now a junior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, says he was attacked after a prayer service in January 2013, when members of the Word of Faith Fellowship cornered him and tried to cure him of his "homosexual 'demons,' " according to an affidavit. "My head was being flung back, my vision was going brown and black," Fenner, 21, told Wspa-tv of the incident. "I couldn't breathe, and I'm sitting here thinking,...
- 12/18/2014
- by Tara Fowler, @waterfowlerta
- PEOPLE.com
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