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Post by beth on May 11, 2010 23:29:45 GMT -5
The latest anti-gay-rights conservative who seems to be a hypocrite in full bloom is George Reker, a professor and Baptist minister who frequently hires himself out to act as a consultant and advocate for any group who is fighting gay marriage and gay adoption rights.
He journeyed to Europe for a ten day jaunt and took along a 20 yr. old male-for-hire from rentboy.com along with him.
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George Rekers' explanation is one for the ages
If Professor George gets away with this, I'm going straight to Rentgirl. It's my bad back.
Not that I'm suggesting George Rekers went straight to Rentboy, the explicit website where his fellow traveler advertises a willingness ``to do anything you say as long as you ask.''
Professor George, as he styles himself on his website, ProfessorGeorge.com , offers a vaguely plausible (alcohol might help) explanation. He didn't procure the services of a 20-year-old male prostitute to join him on a 10-day-jaunt through England and Spain for purposes of prostitution. ``Following medical advice Professor George Rekers requires an assistant to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery.''
With a line like that, and a note from a doctor, who knows how many relationships I might have salvaged?
To be fair, Professor George has never testified that gays don't make splendid international traveling companions.
George Rekers was paid handsomely by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum ($60,900) and the state of Arkansas ($60,000), to flog gay men and women as unfit parents. Particularly adoptive parents.
As a bonus, at no extra charge, Rekers testified in Miami-Dade Circuit Court that he also considered American Indians to be in the same risky category.
Best I can tell, Rekers has never disparaged the fitness of gays or Indians to hump his baggage. George Rekers comes with a lot of baggage.
Rekers, 61, of North Miami, a Baptist minister and a retired professor of behavior science, has long provided academic cover for the Christian right's anti-gay agenda. He's written books, delivered lectures and provided pithy quotes that intimate a scientific basis for opposition to gay adoption and gay marriage.
This global frequent flier, however, suffers needs that trump homophobia. ProfessorGeorge.com boasts of ``over 200 lectures in business seminars, community forums, and university settings in dozens of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, former Soviet Republics, Latin America, and the Middle East.''
Surely, the notion of a weary retired professor schlepping suitcases down so many long, lonely airport corridors explained that photo of Rekers at Miami International Airport with Jo-vanni Roman, his young hired escort. Yet the image has zipped around the Internet as if another Ted Haggard had been nabbed in lurid repose. (The New Times' interview with Roman, describing salacious nude massages, might have exacerbated Rekers' Haggardness.)
Rekers' credibility had already suffered when Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman, tossing Florida's anti-gay adoption law in 2008, found ``Dr. Rekers' beliefs are motivated by his strong ideological and theological convictions that are not consistent with the science.'' The judge added that ``the court can not consider his testimony to be credible nor worthy of forming the basis of public policy.''
Yet Rekers can now bolster his discredited theses with 10 days of personal research and outreach in Europe.
He noted on his website, ``Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them.''
Wow. An explanation for the ages. Can't wait to roll out my own version. ``Baby, you don't understand. I only hang out with sinners, albeit 20-year-old blonde sinners who'll `do anything,' to help them.''
Professor George, you've lighted the way for debauching phonies everywhere.
www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/08/1620428/george-rekers-explanation-is-one.html
He journeyed to Europe for a ten day jaunt and took along a 20 yr. old male-for-hire from rentboy.com along with him.
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George Rekers' explanation is one for the ages
If Professor George gets away with this, I'm going straight to Rentgirl. It's my bad back.
Not that I'm suggesting George Rekers went straight to Rentboy, the explicit website where his fellow traveler advertises a willingness ``to do anything you say as long as you ask.''
Professor George, as he styles himself on his website, ProfessorGeorge.com , offers a vaguely plausible (alcohol might help) explanation. He didn't procure the services of a 20-year-old male prostitute to join him on a 10-day-jaunt through England and Spain for purposes of prostitution. ``Following medical advice Professor George Rekers requires an assistant to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery.''
With a line like that, and a note from a doctor, who knows how many relationships I might have salvaged?
To be fair, Professor George has never testified that gays don't make splendid international traveling companions.
George Rekers was paid handsomely by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum ($60,900) and the state of Arkansas ($60,000), to flog gay men and women as unfit parents. Particularly adoptive parents.
As a bonus, at no extra charge, Rekers testified in Miami-Dade Circuit Court that he also considered American Indians to be in the same risky category.
Best I can tell, Rekers has never disparaged the fitness of gays or Indians to hump his baggage. George Rekers comes with a lot of baggage.
Rekers, 61, of North Miami, a Baptist minister and a retired professor of behavior science, has long provided academic cover for the Christian right's anti-gay agenda. He's written books, delivered lectures and provided pithy quotes that intimate a scientific basis for opposition to gay adoption and gay marriage.
This global frequent flier, however, suffers needs that trump homophobia. ProfessorGeorge.com boasts of ``over 200 lectures in business seminars, community forums, and university settings in dozens of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, former Soviet Republics, Latin America, and the Middle East.''
Surely, the notion of a weary retired professor schlepping suitcases down so many long, lonely airport corridors explained that photo of Rekers at Miami International Airport with Jo-vanni Roman, his young hired escort. Yet the image has zipped around the Internet as if another Ted Haggard had been nabbed in lurid repose. (The New Times' interview with Roman, describing salacious nude massages, might have exacerbated Rekers' Haggardness.)
Rekers' credibility had already suffered when Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman, tossing Florida's anti-gay adoption law in 2008, found ``Dr. Rekers' beliefs are motivated by his strong ideological and theological convictions that are not consistent with the science.'' The judge added that ``the court can not consider his testimony to be credible nor worthy of forming the basis of public policy.''
Yet Rekers can now bolster his discredited theses with 10 days of personal research and outreach in Europe.
He noted on his website, ``Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them.''
Wow. An explanation for the ages. Can't wait to roll out my own version. ``Baby, you don't understand. I only hang out with sinners, albeit 20-year-old blonde sinners who'll `do anything,' to help them.''
Professor George, you've lighted the way for debauching phonies everywhere.
www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/08/1620428/george-rekers-explanation-is-one.html
