Look for the demons that are suspiciously well groomed.
I exercise my demon twice a day, otherwise it starts chewing on the furniture.
“[My fundamentalist sister] told me, ‘You have Satan inside of you!’ So I worked it. ‘Mom? Can I have some more turkey? I’m eating for two.’” - Suzanne Westenhoefer
Seriously, though, this is really awful for the kid. It’s not unique, either. I know of a couple people who were subjected to exorcisms when they were younger for being gay. They rarely like to talk about it.
I’m what now?
Let me ask: Would a male have to have a separate demon to make him not “like” gals, no matter how lovely they look and dress, pleasant they appear, or inviting they act?
Or does one demon do double duty?
Are bi guys lacking the second demon, or do all just have the original demon, but one a bit on the lazy side for them?
And is there a separate kind of demon to make the lez ladies not go for any Willy?
Just asking. -^
But doesn’t giving the name tacitly admit to being a demon? It’s not just leaving oneself more open to being found out, but a confession. I would have said that a more analogous question would be something more like, “What alias did you go under whilst committing fraud?”.
How so? I admit to no expertise in demon naming convention, but does the name itself prove it’s a demon? In other words, isn’t the answer just as likely to be “Steve,” as “Asmodozian of the Thousand Biles?”
It’s the apos’trophes.
I think the question is, if there is a rule that a demon must name itself when asked to do so, is there any other entity that can possess a person that is not a demon, but likewise will name itself when asked, willingly or not, thereby engendering reasonable doubt that the possessing entity is in fact a demon? If a demon is the only type of possessing entity that will name itself when asked, then the simple act of giving the name would be incriminatory, whether it was “Percy” or “Ozz’Otha’ahf, Semi-dark Lord of Gas Station Toilets.”
It’s not the name itself that would provide evidence, but the ability to and do use that name.
If you’re answering the question, “Steve” is not the only information you’re giving; by giving an answer of a name at all, whatever it may be, you’re confessing that there is such a demon. If I ask you what colour shirt you’re wearing, and you say “white”, not only have I learned what colour the shirt is but also that you are, according to you, wearing one. If a suspect is asked for the alias under which he committed fraud, and he says “Steve”, he’s not just saying “I used that alias” but “I used that lias while committing fraud”. And so if someone is asked the name of the demon possessing them, and they say “Steve” they’re not just saying “Steve is the name of the demon” but “Steve is the name of the demon possessing me”.
At last a subject where my education has relevance! I hold graduate degrees in Thaumaturgy with a minor in Necromantic Sciences from Miskatonic University…
The tradition of the controlling power of a name is so ancient, it disappears into the mist. If you have the name of a spirit, you have the power to “bind” it, bend it to your will.
Some of the Synoptic Gospels make quite a bit out of Jesus’ mastery of demons. Not with rituals and spells, but with direct power. The Boss says “Split!” and the demon did what he was told.
– Mark 1:21-28
In one passage describing the Gadarene pig splash, Jesus does ask the demons name, and is told “Legion, for we are many”. But in another description, The Boss don’t play that, he just does his peremptory ass kicking, no effort is made to get the name.
So, anyway, the whole “getting the name” thing goes at least that far back. Curiously, it may have a reverse importance in the case of Jesus. His disciples report that some exorcists in the next county have started to us Jesus’ name as a component of their magic (pagan) rituals, and the disciples tell him they gave them some shit about that, since they weren’t Christians, or even Jews, they were operating under false pretense. Jesus told them to forget it, anybody working to do good is on the right side.
Of course, this sort of primitive magical stuff is ok for Palestinian trailer-trash, but for the educated Hellenistic world this sort of thing had to be soft-pedaled a wee bit. But every once in a while there is a revival, usually to the embarassment of staid and proper churchmen.
Mama slapped the gay out (YouTube)
You do realize, don’t you, that that phrase sounds kinda like pillow talk? 
To whom?
That was…well I don’t know what that was but it was something!
I’ve done some research and I’m pretty sure you mean holy watersports him. Waterboarding is torture.
iI keep seeing the title of the thread as Homosexual demon, come on down! and imagine an audience roaring and hooting with approval as the excited gay demon rushes down towards a beaming Bob Barker. 
What a funny coincidence, that is what my death will be like! (I received notice in advance; fairly expensive.)
I appreciated your previous example and the verse it came from. Can you help me find this verse?
Dimly recall it being in Matthew, you can probably find it by focusing on “Rebuke them not, for he who is not against us is with us.”