Mormon Conversion Therapy Forced Teen To Stand With Backpack Full Of Rocks After She Came Out As Lesbian

Story out of Utah:

Alex Cooper's memories of standing against a wall -- wearing a backpack full of rocks -- are still fresh.

"I did not know how many hours I had been standing there, quietly trying to manage the pain by shifting my weight from foot to foot," the 21-year-old writes in her new book, "Saving Alex," published this month.

The book details Cooper's eight-month long experience with conversion therapy at a house in St. George. Her LDS parents sent her there in 2010 after she came out as gay.

"It's like sending you to therapy to change your eye color," she said in an interview Tuesday with 2News after a speech at Weber State University. "It's not going to work. What it's going to do is damage you." Cont.

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