There is no such thing as homosexuality. There is however the sin of same sex attraction.
So says a so called psychologist in the subtly scary THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST.
And, apparently, the sin of same ex attraction can beat out of you when God bothering polyester shirt wear wearing proselytes take their Bible belt to you.
A camp – an odd nomenclature for a place to send them to cure them of being camp – called God’s Promise is the setting of this film which should be an historical drama but all too sadly is contemporary as the Donald’s America. At God’s Promise, you become a disciple – a disciple of self disgust, an apostle of run by evangelical fun police who wash away the sin of same sex attraction with carbolic baptism of shame.
The Miss in THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST is played by Chloe Grace Moretz in a what’s all the fuss about performance that makes her lesbian leanings as natural as heteronormative hormone horneryness.
Jennifer Ehle plays a stitched up shrink, the camp’s own personal Disney villain.
Her portrayal of a psychiatrist is interesting when you bear in mind, that despite Sigmund Freud’s denial that homosexuality constituted a disease, the first edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, published in 1952 officially defined being gay a disease, a proclamation that rightly triggered opposition and outrage.
Only in 1986 were all references to homosexuality removed fro the DSM. Homosexuality’s shift from sin to disease to normality has been gradual, staggered and patchwork and remains incomplete.
In 2017, The Daily Telegraph included same sex attraction alongside obesity, drug use and mental health problems demonstrating that being gay is still thought of as an illness in many circles, and will be for some time to come.
The youth branch of Victorian Liberals motioned to debate a law change that would allow doctors to offer counselling out of same sex attraction or gender transitioning.
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST invokes the Bible to shore up psycho-quackery against queerness, quoting Corinthians Two: When I am weak, then I am strong.
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
This Karaoke for Christ is mightily and righteously turned in on itself by by writer director Desiree Akhavan and her co writer, Cecilia Frugiuele in adapting Emily Danforth’s novel to the screen.
Miss Cameron Post is perfected in the weakness of others, their weakness making her strong, and THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST becomes an education not to be missed.