I’m not 100% sure that what happened was labelling as a brainwashing tool. Sometimes I think it is a good thing to have the words to describe what is going on, so as to better deal it.
The article doesn’t say what, if anything, his pastor did to help him after he told Frank he was homosexual. It would have helped Frank enormously, I think, if he had done something constructive towards turning Frank back to heterosexuality.
But in any case God took him and made him a witness to people who might not otherwise have heard and really listened to testimony.
Seriously? The kid was 13 and did not even know what a homosexual was. How dare that Pastor label the kid as such. It sounds like the kid was a gift musician who probably acted a bit feminine, but the Pastor was so far out of line in his assumptions.