# Bill Gothard resigns from ministry **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gothard-resigns-from-ministry/683205 "2014-03-08T17:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gothard-resigns-from-ministry/683205/21 "2014-03-09T05:04:32Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Oh I almost forgot one of the best parts! (and then I’ll stop boring people with my stories). We were kept up until like 1am while they interrogated us about who started it, what was said, and all that fun stuff. Then they actually called Bill sometime between 1 and 2am to decide what should be done with us. At some point, they called our parents, I don’t know exactly when. We were immediately removed from working the seminar and had to attend it. Then driven to Indianapolis where they have a ‘training’ center which is where my Mom met me and told me were staying for the 3 day torture session. were you under or over 18? Sorry, if I were over 18 I would have hitch hiked home if that is what it took to bail out of that little slice of hell. I can remember going on a Youth For Christ long weekend up in Toronto while I was hanging out with a couple friends who were still in HS [they were both 16, and were 3 years behind me, I was already over 18 and out of school. Theoretically I should not have been allowed to attend.] I had a Canadian friend of the family come to the hotel to have dinner with me and holy hell broke loose - you would have thought he was the anti-christ or something. I got lectured for about 15 minutes until I told the idiots to back off because I was an adult there of my own free will and I would leave and make a complaint to their headquarters if they abused me any longer. Only reason I considered going with my friends was I knew Billy Graham more or less got his start with them and I thought that they were not as manic-evangelical as they ended up being. I will not tolerate anybody telling me NOT to have someone as a friend simply because they were not members of the same group that I was with. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gothard-resigns-from-ministry/683205/22 "2014-03-09T05:08:56Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > were you under or over 18? > > Sorry, if I were over 18 I would have hitch hiked home if that is what it took to bail out of that little slice of hell. I had just turned 18 and probably should have done that. I did think about telling them I was leaving and if they kept me against my will it would be kidnapping and there would be hell to pay. But I was mostly a ‘good kid’ and since my mom wanted me to I complied. I wanted to tell them all to fuck off, but didn’t want to hurt my Mom or potentially the family because you know there would’ve been repercussions to them if I had. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gothard-resigns-from-ministry/683205/23 "2014-03-09T05:12:50Z")
ATI is a cult, and anyone who’d been in it for a while would have been brainwashed and/or coerced to staying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gothard-resigns-from-ministry/683205.md?page=1)