Family Research Council leader caught w/ gay prostitute

[Soon]

Originally Posted by Mitmo01

i hope the rent boy goes on oprah lol

Escort Revealed in Rekers Scandal -- The Advocate

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Reached Tuesday afternoon by phone, a man purporting to be Roman repeatedly declined to discuss any details of being hired by Rekers for a recent 10-day trip to Madrid and London. “I don’t think people realize how serious this has gotten, and I would have talked about this had my privacy been respected,” Roman said, referring to his Rentboy.com profile, which was posted Tuesday byUnzipped, followed by several gay blogs.

“There’s absolutely nothing else I can say,” Roman added.


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In a Wednesday statement on his website, Rekers referred to Roman — known on his Rentboy profile as “Geo” and as “Mark” on a profile on Men4RentNow.com — as his “travel assistant” who was hired “to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery.”

“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,” the statement read. “Dr. Rekers found his recent travel assistant by interviewing acquaintances, and only found out about his travel assistant’s alleged prostitution activity and Internet advertisements during the trip. There was nothing inappropriate with this relationship. Professor Rekers was not involved in any illegal or sexual behavior with his travel assistant."

The Miami New Times broke the story in a Tuesdayarticle, referring to the escort using the pseudonym “Lucien.” The story was quickly followed in the LGBT media and mainstream outlets, including CBS News and TheWashington Post.

Despite his statement, Rekers intimated in a Tuesday message via Facebook toJoe.My.Godblogger Joe Jervis that he had hired the escort as part of his ongoing Christian ministry. Rekers said he shared “scientific information on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse” with the young man whom he had hired.

“Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them,” Rekers wrote.

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[apretty]

Originally Posted by Martina

i have never paid for sex, but if it's an us vs them thing, i am on the side of those who have paid for it vs those who judge others for having done it.

i sends chills up me to be considered one of "us" if "us" means those who have proudly never paid for sex. Sure prostitution everywhere has its ills. But i am so not going to judge either people who have used the services of sex workers or sex workers themselves.

i don't think paying for sex is the biggest crime out there, i hope that was evident in the rest of my post--a higher crime is hypocrisy and trying to *reform* gays, to be clear.

i didn't read my post as othering sex workers, but okay.

[DamonK]

What's sad is I HAD to go check out that website... rentboy.com

I'm curious like that. Can't give me a site name that makes me laugh and not have me check it out.

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

“Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them,” Rekers wrote.

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Wow...so now he's like Jesus? I must have missed that part during bible study...

[The_Lady_Snow]

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.

I wonder how he was able to do all this as he sucked his *assistants* dick...

What an ass hat!

Jesus told me to kick a juice box off his neck....

[SuperFemme]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

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.

I wonder how he was able to do all this as he sucked his *assistants* dick...

What an ass hat!

Jesus told me to kick a juice box off his neck....

Yeah. I'm surprised he didn't cite *gay bowel disease*. Because being gay is only a behavior after all.

Sigh.

[Mitmo01]

"In my opinion, that fucker has blood on his hands for all the "Good Works" he has done."

well said June him and many others have blood on their hands.......and i hope everyone of these fuckin evangelists or whatever the fuck they call themselves gets caught out in the open.....outing started out for this reason and more of them should have to face this justice imho.....

[SuperFemme]

Isn't our community having a slut night something that would totally FREAK out an outsider? I'd hate to be judged for that one night.

I can see all the points, but I still don't know that it causes those of us who live a normal life (whatever that means) erasure or invisibility.

I'm willing to learn though.

Off to ponder.

[SuperFemme]

Originally Posted by June

We do the same things as straight people, we just do it Queer and that's (apparently) a problem for Jesus (according to 'them'). We just get more NEGATIVE attention when we do it.

I agree and I suppose that is the sad, sad crux of the issue.

[Nat]

I am so not an expert in psychological theory, but my understanding of Jung's "shadow aspect" is that people tend to take the things they dislike about themselves and try to reject those things. But they can't really eradicate those qualities within themselves - they can only repress them.

From wikipedia - because I'm an intellectual like that -

According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to project: turning a personal inferiority into a perceived moral deficiency in someone else. Jung writes that if these projections are unrecognized "The projection-making factor (the Shadow archetype) then has a free hand and can realize its object--if it has one--or bring about some other situation characteristic of its power." These projections insulate and cripple individuals by forming an ever thicker fog of illusion between the ego and the real world.


I do wish Jung hadn't used images of dark and light to make his point, but I do think he has a point that the things you repress/despise in yourself get projected onto others. I think it goes along with that saying, "The things you despise most in others are the things you despise most in yourself."

[UofMfan]

I thought this was funny and worth a look.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_565763.html

[Diva]

Originally Posted by Nat

I am so not an expert in psychological theory, but my understanding of Jung's "shadow aspect" is that people tend to take the things they dislike about themselves and try to reject those things. But they can't really eradicate those qualities within themselves - they can only repress them.

From wikipedia - because I'm an intellectual like that -

According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to project: turning a personal inferiority into a perceived moral deficiency in someone else. Jung writes that if these projections are unrecognized "The projection-making factor (the Shadow archetype) then has a free hand and can realize its object--if it has one--or bring about some other situation characteristic of its power." These projections insulate and cripple individuals by forming an ever thicker fog of illusion between the ego and the real world.


I do wish Jung hadn't used images of dark and light to make his point, but I do think he has a point that the things you repress/despise in yourself get projected onto others. I think it goes along with that saying, "The things you despise most in others are the things you despise most in yourself."

It all began with Shakespeare, didn't it? ~ when he wrote something along the lines of: "Methinks thou doth protest too much."

I think it was Shakespeare....

EDITED: I had to go look...yes on the Shakespeare, from Hamlet: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

[JustJo]

Originally Posted by SuperFemme

Isn't our community having a slut night something that would totally FREAK out an outsider? I'd hate to be judged for that one night.

I hear what you're saying SuperFemme....I guess the main difference for me is that, while carrying on at slut night (don't giggle Scoote...that's a hypothetical) I wouldn't also be telling other people how they should live, testifying in court, and offering myself as an expert. In my view, the only thing this twit is an expert on is hypocrisy.

Frankly, if he were living as a private person, minding his own business and letting others live the way they want to, then he can hire all the rent-boys or whatever he likes, and do whatever he wants. I won't judge...and truly don't care. He can be open about his lifestyle, keep it a secret, whatever....his call.

It's when people try to tell me how to live, legislate my morality and judge me...while acting hypocritically...that I get a little ticked off. Actually, more than a little. I'm glad he's getting a nice dose of public humiliation. He's earned it. I feel a bit bad for the escort, who didn't ask for this kind of publicity. But as far as Rekers goes...I'm ready to hold the juice box on his neck so Lady Snow can get a really good shot.

[Diva]

Originally Posted by UofMfan

I thought this was funny and worth a look.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_565763.html

Did I happen to mention that this Rekers guy looks frightening similar to my Christian fundamentalist ex~husband?



I know.

[Nat]

Originally Posted by Diva

It all began with Shakespeare, didn't it? ~ when he wrote something along the lines of: "Methinks thou doth protest too much."

I think it was Shakespeare....

EDITED: I had to go look...yes on the Shakespeare, from Hamlet: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Exactly - what surprises me more is that people who really are straight would, say, go to such lengths to oppress gays.

What makes a person shape their entire life around gay people, what the gays are doing, how bad the gays are, etc? I think it's gotta be a pretty short list of motivations.

[rockybcn]

Originally Posted by Nat

Exactly - what surprises me more is that people who really are straight would, say, go to such lengths to oppress gays.

What makes a person shape their entire life around gay people, what the gays are doing, how bad the gays are, etc? I think it's gotta be a pretty short list of motivations.

I rather imagine its a superb money maker. Many church leaders are looking to have a sinful "cause" for the vast majority to rally against. This keeps the folks in attendance at churches and listening on the airways with donations galore. NO ONE has to look at their own sins when the majority is rallied together with a greater sin to combat. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Matthew 7:3

[The_Lady_Snow]

'WBWJR -- What Boy Would Jesus Rent?'

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo...deo.php?ref=mp

[Soon]

The Gist: Michael Signorile

Interview: Joe Jervis
This is my interview from yesterday with Joe Jervis of JoeMyGod on his great coverage of the George "Rentboy" Rekers scandal.

[JustJo]

Okay...I'm sorry....but this just made me giggle

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/....1207277030..1

[Soon]

George Rekers Is a Homosexual, Escort Says

​The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times the Baptist minister is a homosexual who paid him to provide body rubs once a day in the nude, during their ten-day vacation in Europe.

Rekers allegedly named his favorite maneuver the "long stroke" -- a complicated caress "across his penis, thigh... and his anus over the butt cheeks," as the escort puts it. "Rekers liked to be rubbed down there," he says.

In his first interview since New Times broke the story Tuesday, the 20-year-old escort, who prefers to go by the name Lucien, contradicts Rekers's contentions that he hired the escort to help carry his luggage and that he was trying to save the soul of a lost sinner.

Although Rekers does have physical ailments that make it difficult for him to haul suitcases, Lucien wasn't hired to carry luggage on their European vacation, the escort says.

"It's a situation where he's going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual," Lucien says.