by VorJack
Dog bites man.
Politician caught lying.
Blogger phones in a post.
Anti-gay activist caught soliciting gay sex.
On April 13, the “rent boy” (whom we’ll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.
That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy’s client and, as it happens, one of America’s most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.
Rekers, who I’d never heard of before, has been quite an important member of the anti-gay community:
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. [...]
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.”
Of course, we’re so used to this it’s not even surprising. The only thing new to come from this is a new euphemism:
Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. “I had surgery,” Rekers said, “and I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.” (Medical problems didn’t stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)
He needed help “lifting his luggage,” if you know what I mean. It replaces “hiking the Appalachian Trail” and “wide stance” as the newest euphemism created by a sex scandal.
Seriously. I’ve tried to find some way to see this as all a big misunderstanding, that somehow it could have gone down just the way Rekers says it did. But, come on! Unless the “facts” before us all lies….
He lied, the camera caught him lifting his own luggage.
And as Greta Christina stated, http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2010/03/closeted-politicians-and-bi-invisibility.html “Rabid anti-gay wingnut” has entered my gaydar repertoire too.
Any psychologist that could tell us more about how these.. ehm, “self-hating gay” minds work?
I find it fascinating.
Greta: Dr. George A. Rekers is a psychologist!
Cognitive Dissonance. Once would have thought he would have spotted it, but there’s the rub.
What a prick. Seriously. This is what I see when I look at Christians like this – hypocrites who cheat and then lie about it when caught. How can he claim to believe in the Bible and “God’s” laws and yet totally disregard his own magic book like this?
Easily.
You find no issue with claiming you don’t believe the Bible. Folks like Rekkers start with the lie that they believe the Bible word for word. Once you start lying, I”m sure the rest come easy.
Because, obviously, if you need to hire a porter to carry your luggage, the obvious place to look is rentboy.com, which seems hard to mistake for anything other than a gay prostitution site, even for someone who isn’t an expert of Rekers’ level….
Well, he rented a boy. That site does exactly what it says on the tin.
So let me get this straight, he hired a GAY person to push his luggage?
Are GAY people better in pushing luggage than HETRO people? Especially people form renteboy.com.
Well, obviously not. After all, he originally claimed that it took him five days to realise that this young man (whom he had recruited from a website that lists which sexual acts he will perform with other men in exchange for money) was a male prostitute. So, obviously his sexual orientation was irrelevant.
On the other hand, you’d have thought that a bear would be better at carrying luggage than a twink…
Lulz… Good one :D
I am wondering, in the US back in 1800 or so a black boys were they not used to carry luggage? (I am not from the US but I saw this on TV). Maybe that is the confusion with RentABoy.com
I loved what PZ Meyers had to say about this: “He had picked the young fellow out from a web site that describes his sexual attributes and offered explicit services for pay, but Dr Rekers said he just hired him to…”lift his luggage”. I am unfamiliar with that euphemism, but I’m sure it was fun.”
The saddest part of all is the damage he and his cohorts have wrought upon the LGBT population of the USA for decades where today the vast majority of gay people are still treated as second class perverts with limited rights. What a fucking bastard! I have zero pity for anything this man may suffer as a consequence of his actions, and I sincerely hope he gets his just rewards in short order. It’s a shame there is no Hell for surely he deserves an eternity burning therein.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/308752/may-05-2010/alpha-dog-of-the-week—george-rekers
saw that last night……..I was laughing so hard I almost fell out of bed
Stephen has such a way with words ;)
WBWJR- What Boy Would Jesus Rent. ROFL
I think that any instance the blatantly exposes hypocricy is awesome. Denial is not a virtue.
Am I the only one that’s disgusted more with the rent boy than with Rekers? I mean, I know he’s paying you but the thought of having to fool around with that old dude and his mustache is just too much for me.
Awww, do I detect a tinge of ageism? =P
Yup! At least when it comes to who I sleep with.
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Awwwww…Jay-zus you are just missing the main point. This was simply a creative way of undertaking a “mission” to a particularly dark continent, Gayberia. A personal mission to a dark land the Rev knows so well. Who better to lead the expedition?
After all, according to the Good Rev, he spent the time witnessing to the young man. (LOL)
and what he was witnessing was pretty impressive, from what I read……
Well, according to this article (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20004264-503544.html), Rekers put on his Facebook: “Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them.”
Yeah. “Loving” goal is right.
You mean that it is a Christian thing to go to prostitutes?
No it’s a Christian thing to lie about it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8665812.stm
Baptist minister George Rekers denies rent boy claim
BBC News
May 6th 2010
…”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.”…
I’ve heard of snorkeling and teabagging, but I’m really curious what ‘shared the gospel’ is a euphemism for.
You unrependant fools!!!!
This is all part of God’s plan. See, God wants to test our faith in him by testing and tempting one of his most favorite sons – Reker, with gay sex trips. God has always tested us through trials and tribulations like earthquakes, wild fires, gay sex, etc. We are supposed to see through all this muck and find His holy hands are behind everything. We are supposed to work through these with His grace and wisdom. At the end, we should be closer to God as we wade through the swamp temptation because we are stronger in our faith..Or something like it.
I should have been a Xtian preacher, I think I can fart these thoughts out pretty convincingly. What do y’all think?
Praise the Lord Goddamnit!!
It’s all gods plan. Therefore god orchestrated it. Since it wouldn’t have happened without god, god had to be there the ENTIRE time in order to keep it going. Therefore god was in bed with them. Therefore god is an in-the-closet-self-hating-gay? Guess Rekers is really all that much closer to his sky daddy.
God is omnipresent, he is everywhere at all times. Nothing you do escapes his watchful eyes, nothing can happen without his nod.
He was there in the back seat when you ran the red light while picking your nose. He was hiding behind the speakers when you looked at that porn site at work. He was under the bed when you got that platonic massage from the male escort in that airport motel room. He was under the water when you peed in the hotel pool in Vegas. He is everywhere and sees everything..
Praise the Lord Goddamnit!!
rAmen.
I think the lesson in biology is clear: God’s design is perfect. Pole fits piehole. Pole fits bung hole. The Family Research Council was simply sending Mr. Rekers out into the world to demonstrate these truths which they have discovered.
Does this now also mean that he will get treatment on himself by curing his gayness?
Here’s an excerpt from his New Times interview:
The male escort hired by anti-gay activist George Alan Rekers has told Miami New Times that 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.
-from http://blog.unzipped.net/2010/05/jovanni-roman-sorry-ive-already-spoken-to-the-miami-new-times.html
I know the Bible says Jesus hung out with prostitutes, but I don’t think this is quite the same thing! LOL
One could almost say that:
‘Friends of Dobson = Friends of Dorothy’
;-)
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