Over the last summer in Colorado, as covered in the Columbine Courier News and the Colorado Independent a controversy broke out concerning Colorado-area Teen Challenge addiction recovery centers overseen by Colorado State Representative and Assemblies of God pastor Ken Summers, when Columbine Courier news reporter Emile Hallez Williams reported that Summer's centers practice "reparative therapy," an evangelical euphemism for attempts to "cure" people of homosexuality.

Running for reelection this year, Ken Summers denied that his centers practiced "reparative therapy" but Williams stuck by his story. That raises questions concerning the methods that Summers' centers might use to "get the gay out." Over the last few months I've been doing a good deal of research on the growing trend of exorcism on the evangelical right. That research led me to a May 1, 2010 podcast, in which the Assistant Director of one of Summers' Teen Challenge centers, Matt Lane, recounts an exorcism at the 180 Men's Teen Challenge Denver center and states that demon possession is a "very common" problem they deal with at his center.

