'Pray the Black Away' Clinic Struggling in Tough Economy
Post Detroit Reporter
August 3, 2011
Bachmann & Associates, a Christian counseling center focusing in "Pray the Black Away" therapy, is having financial hardship in the current slow economy.
"We just don't know what the problem is," said Marcus Bachmann, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s husband, while hiding a Kanye West CD in a desk drawer.
The Bachmanns jointly own the unlicensed clinic in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, which specializes in the controversial "African-Aversion Prayer Therapy."
"They told me my African heritage was a sin," said Jack Warner, who was counseled at Bachmann & Associates when he was just 17, "but that, if I prayed the way I paid them to teach me, I could live as God wanted me to."
Marcus Bachmann said he greatly overestimated the demand for their services.
"I thought there were more righteous, Christian African-Americans in America," he said.
The Bachmanns fear the clinic may be forced to close if Obama's economy doesn't improve soon.
"Did they know that only three African Americans live in Lake Elmo?" asked Greg Nygard, president of the Greater Stillwater Chamber of Commerce.
