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Family Research Council leader caught w/ gay prostitute
I know that this is going to come as a great shock to folks but George Alan Rekers, who is a co-founder of the Family Research Council was caught coming back from 10 day vacation with "Lucien" a young man he found on Rentboy.com. This has gotten so hilarious that I think that, in keeping with the 'man bites dog' definition of news, it should be on the front page, above the fold, with a banner headline when some prominent, anti-gay conservative ISN'T caught in a gay sex scandal!!!
All the juiciness here.
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I was just reading all about it and was wondering if a thread should be started--thanks for starting this one.
I cannot believe that close to 100 000 of Florida taxpayer (and I just read Arkansas, too) money was given to him as the State's star (and only) witness in keeping the ban on gays from adopting. I hope this hits mainstream news. www.joemygod.blogspot.com is also doing a good job covering the various aspects of this story |
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A gay male gigolo named Lucien?
Does it GET any better? |
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Btw. here's a helpful little lexicon for understanding anti-gay conservatives:
How to speak anti-gay conservative: Luggage: 'Package', 'bulge', that thing in your pants that shows you're happy to see him, genitalia Carrying my luggage: Having a tight hold on said package "Lovingly sharing the message of Jesus": Activity greatly enhanced by presence of poppers and KY Jelly Baggage handler: Gym queen Love the sinner: Something to do all night lonnnng Jesus: A baggage handler from Latin America Message of Jesus: Bring lube Surgery: Pleasurable activity involving luggage
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From what I am reading, Rekers, who testifies to disallow LGBT folks from being able to adopt, has, allegedly (I cannot verify this, yet), adopted a sixteen year old boy (as a single man from what I understand) who is now the same age as *Lucien* the paid escort from rentboy.
The Family Research Council (of which he co-founded with Dobson) has already scrubbed his name from their website. News Source that broke the story: From Miami New Times: For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America's best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become a standard-bearer of the nation's extreme right wing. Its annual Values Summit is considered a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls, and Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter have spoken there. (The Family Research Council would not comment about Rekers's Euro-trip.) He has also influenced American government, serving in advisory roles with Congress, the White House, and the Department of Health and Human Services and testifying as a state's witness in favor of Florida's gay adoption ban. A former research fellow at Harvard University and a distinguished professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina, Rekers has published papers and books by the hundreds, with titles like Who Am I? Lord and Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality. "While he keeps a low public profile, his fingerprints are on almost every anti-gay effort to demean and dehumanize LGBT people," says Wayne Besen, a gay rights advocate in New York City and the executive director of Truth Wins Out, which investigates the anti-gay movement. "His work is ubiquitously cited by lobby groups that work to deny equality to LGBT Americans. Rekers has caused a great deal of harm to gay and lesbian individuals." |
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This is not crap that helps us. By us, I mean queer community that needs to be recognized with rights for protections, marriage, immigration, adoption, all that.
This is the kind of crap that makes us look worse even. Cause its not about a story of us in loving relationships, its not a story about who we really are. Its a story about how the conservatives accuse us to be. It pisses me off. I mean, certainly, sometimes we are just looking for some hot body on a boat. Hell yeah. House bois free to apply via pm. However... we are MORE than this. I hope Im making myself clear. |
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He is man who has been exposed as a fraud and his hateful, anti-gay work can now be seen as charade and, perhaps, a projection of his own self-loathing. I see this as example of what happens when you are so closeted that you have to sneak around (not that out people don't hire escorts) and make up half-assed answers (luggage handler! proselytizing!) as to why you are on vacation with an escort from rentboy. I don't think this makes US look bad; I think it makes the Right Wingers look like hypocritical, self-haters. |
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Fascinating! No matter how many times this type of story repeats - still fascinating.
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One would think that at some point it would seem foolish to openly oppose Queer Rights, when One is in fact Gay. But. One would think a lot of things.....
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I think this was down earlier--back up now.
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***MISLEADING INTERNET REPORTS ABOUT PROFESSOR GEORGE REKERS*** A recent article in an alternative newspaper cleverly gave false impressions of inappropriate behavior because of its misleading innuendo, incorrectly implying that Professor George Rekers used the Rentboy website to hire a prostitute to accompany him on a recent trip. Contrary to Internet stories based on this slanderous article, following medical advice Professor George Rekers requires an assistant to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery. His family, local friends, and even another university professor colleague have offered to accompany him on trips to lift luggage. Professor Rekers was not involved in any illegal or sexual behavior with his travel assistant. **************** So, he had all these people to help with his luggage but he went through rentboy? This is what Rekers admitted to Joe Jervis (of joemygod, YESTERDAY): So what was it luggage boy or trying to reform a rentboy? NARTH and Family Research Council co-founder Dr. George Rekers has responded to my inquiry about where to find the hottest male prostitutes. After the above, he continues: I have spent much time as a mental health professional and as a Christian minister helping and lovingly caring for people identifying themselves as “gay.” My hero is Jesus Christ who loves even the culturally despised people, including sexual sinners and prostitutes. Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them. Mark 2:16-17 reads, “16When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" 17On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." In fact, in a dialogue with hypocritical religious leaders, Jesus even stated to them, "I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. 32For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him. " (Matthew 21:31). Like John the Baptist and Jesus, I have a loving Christian ministry to homosexuals and prostitutes in which I share the Good News of Jesus Christ with them (see I Corinthians 6:8-11). Contrary to false gossip, innuendo, and slander about me, I do not in any way “hate” homosexuals, but I seek to lovingly share two types of messages to them, as I did with the young man called “Lucien” in the news story: [1] It is possible to cease homosexual practices to avoid the unacceptable health risks associated with that behavior, and [2] the most important decision one can make is to establish a relationship with God for all eternity by trusting in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins, including homosexual sins. If you talk with my travel assistant that the story called “Lucien,” you will find I spent a great deal of time sharing scientific information on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse, and I shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him in great detail. |
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I didn't know the Miami New Times was an alternative paper.
Also, as you can see in the pictures, the good professor seems to handling his OWN luggage AND his companions. |
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Demand Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's explanation for spending $87,000 of taxpayer money on "expert" testimony from a closeted patron of male "rentboys." Comment on his FB page http://bit.ly/cnPh8i (they keep deleting comments) or call his office at 850-414-3990. Danny Collins How can you possibly justify paying this closeted homophobic individual $87,000 to condemn fine gay couples who simply want to give unwanted children a good loving home when this guy is using the taxpayers money for male prostitutes and telling such obvious lies about baggage handers???? Have you no shame at all? |
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Baptist minister 'took ten-day holiday with male prostitute'
A Baptist minister and leading anti-gay activist faced the ruination of his career yesterday after being photographed returning from a European holiday with a male prostitute. George Rekers, who sits on the board of a national organisation dedicated to changing the sexuality of gay men and lesbians, hired a companion from a website called Rentboy.com that offers clients a wide range of choices, from “rentboy” and “sugar daddy” to “masseur”. Dr Rekers said he took the prostitute on the ten-day trip last month to London and Madrid as a travel assistant after a stint in hospital. “I had surgery,” he said when approached this week by the Miami New Times. “I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.” Photographs of the pair emerging from Miami international airport last month show the older man pushing their suitcases on a trolley. Dr Rekers’s companion has been identified as a 20-year-old Puerto Rican whose entry on the Rentboy.com website gives his name as “Geo”. The site says that he is “sensual”, “wild” and “up for anything”. It also describes him as “versatile”, with a “nice ass”. Contacted this week by reporters in Miami, he said he was surprised by Dr Rekers’s claim to have realised he was a prostitute only halfway through their holiday. Geo’s profile on Rentboy.com is a bewildering mix of the banal and the specific. “I’m a college guy, masculine, educated, really easy going,” he says. “Great to get along with, can hold a conversation.” He lists stripping and go-go dancing among his talents. “I will do anything you say as long as you ask,” he promises. Dr Rekers, who co-founded America’s most powerful Christian lobbying group, has testified as an expert in favour of bans on gay adoption in Florida and Arkansas. He has also written numerous books on homosexuality as a curable condition, including Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know about Homosexuality. Gay rights advocates called yesterday for him to step down from the board of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (Narth), for which he lectures across the world. He is also closely linked with the Washington-based Family Research Council, which he founded with Dr James Dobson in 1983. In an e-mailed response to questions about the European trip, he said: “My hero is Jesus Christ who loves even the culturally despised people, including sexual sinners and prostitutes. Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them.” Dr Rekers also told a blogger who reached him via Facebook: “If you talk with my travel assistant . . . you will find I spent a great deal of time sharing scientific information on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse, and I shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with him in great detail.” In 2006 Ted Haggard resigned as a leader of the National Association of Evangelicals after a male prostitute claimed to have had sex with him for three years. Ray Ashburn, a California state senator with a long record of opposing gay rights, was arrested and charged with drunk-driving this year while leaving a gay nightclub in Sacramento. In 1988 Jimmy Swaggart, one of America’s most successful televangelists, was found to have had regular paid sex with prostitutes. Do as I say ... • The televangelist Pat Robertson caused outrage when he said that the Haiti earthquake was caused by “a pact to the Devil” sworn by Haitians when they became independent of French rule • Matt Baker, a Texan minister, was convicted of faking his wife’s suicide in 2009 so that he could have a relationship with a member of his church • Kent Hovind, a creationist minister with his own dinosaur theme park in Florida, was sentenced to ten years in jail for falsely declaring bankruptcy and threatening investigators in 2006 Hovind paid employees in cash, claiming that they were all workers of God and therefore exempt from taxes • The TV minister Jim Bakker shocked viewers of his television series when it emerged that he had had an affair with a secretary, paying her off with church funds. He was jailed in 1989 for fraud after paying himself and his wife, Tammy Faye, below, millions of dollars in church funds and concocting a timeshare scam at his theme park in South Carolina Sources: ABC; AP; BBC; Time; Times archives |
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not sure if this was already posted, but it's the ad with pic.
(he sure is cute, but doesn't look like he could carry that much luggage...) http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/201...edium=facebook |
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