Dr. George Alan Rekers, the Family Research Council co-founder who has spent his professional career publishing pseudo-scholarly books on how to "cure" gay teenagers and make sure your children grow up straight.
Rekers, who is also a professor emeritus of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina and a Baptist minister, recently testified against gay adoption in Florida, where he resides. Dr. George Rekers claimed that children adopted by gay couples are more likely to commit suicide.
The retired professor has remained far less high-profile than his Family Research Council co-founder James Dobson, but he is an extremely prolific author of books like, “Who Am I?,” “Lord and Growing Up Straight,” and “What Families Should Know About Homosexuality.” He has also been called on to advised the conservative right wing members of Congress, the Bush White House, and the Department of Health and Human Services on how homosexuals can be cured.
Now as it has so often been said, “The thing you are the most outspoken about….is really the thing you are yourself.” Yes our fine outstanding Dr. George Alan Rekers, appears to be nothing more than a self loathing homosexual himself!!
It has recently come to light that Dr. Rekers went on a lovely vacation with a young man, Lucien, who he hired from Rentboy.com. First, Rekers claimed he only learned that his travel companion was a prostitute some time after their vacation started. Rekers also claimed he hired him from Rentboy.com, a website that exists solely to aid gay men in finding sex partners for gay sex, to help him "lift luggage."
Rekers is now responding to inquiries from reporters with a new fabricated tail; he found his "recent travel assistant" by "interviewing acquaintances."
Rekers pointed out that Jesus spent a lot of time with prostitutes. And Rekers says he did not just pay his young male prostitute friend to lift luggage:
If you talk with my travel assistant you will find I spent a great deal of time sharing scientific information with Lucien on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse, and I shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him in great detail.
The male escort hired by anti-gay activist Dr. George Alan Rekers, 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.
The male escort said that Reker’s favorite maneuver was the "long stroke,” a complicated caress across his penis, thigh to his anus over the butt cheeks. As the escort puts it, "Rekers liked to be rubbed down there."
In the past 24 hours, Rekers, a board member at the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and cofounder of the Family Research Council, has claimed he took Lucien to Europe to inspire him to accept Jesus into his heart and renounce his homosexuality.
I wrote about this as an episode of the Microdot Zone...since I wrote about it, it's only gotten more bizarre.
ReplyDeleteThe story was first reported by the Miami NewTimes. On Thursday, the Miami NewTimes was informed by Profwessor Rekers lawyers that they were taking "legal action" for defamation against their client.
The claimed that Rekers had spoken to "Reuben" and he was going to issue a statement clarifying everything Rekers asserted about the nature of their trip.
Unfortunately, for Rekers, his conversation with Reuben occured whe Reuben was giving an interview to The Miami New Times and they reported the facts of the converstaion. The conversation was one sided with Rekers telling Reuben what he had to do.
This interview was when Reuben explained the long stroke massage technique. Since then a video with Reuben was released in which he states the terms of his contract with Rekers and the money he was paid.
To further damn Rekers, a second "rent boy" has come forward to tell of his employment by Rekers.
Things don't look very good. "Reuben" is getting real legal assistance now. He's a 20 year old kid who didn't realy know what he was getting himself into. He had never told his parents about his sexual orientation and his job. I think he needs a body guard, because as things crumble, these jerks can play real dirty.
Rekers was the cofounder with James Dobson of The Family Research Council and you can bet there is a lot of damage control going on at FRC Headquarters as we speak.
There is also the matter of $60,000 that Rekers was paid for testimony about gay marriage. Now it is under scrutiny. Who paid for the testimony? It looks like it was government money.
Happy ending? I don't think so.
Rekers is going to crash and burn andhopefully he doesn't take anyone innocent down with him.
by the way, Reuben was the alias that Lucien used whan the story broke.
ReplyDeleteIt's always the case it seems. Why do these phony bigots think that no one will discover their secret life? Better yet, why do their followers believe the crap in the first place??
ReplyDeleteoh, I forgot. For the bible says...
Nothing makes me happier than to see the hypocracy of these god fearing right wing buffoons exposed.
ReplyDeleteJust waiting for Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck to be caught in a threesome with a preteen boy.
"If you talk with my travel assistant you will find I spent a great deal of time sharing scientific information with Lucien on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse, and I shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him in great detail"
ReplyDeleteI don't think yelling Oh GOD Oh GOD while lucian was performing the longstroke should be construed as sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Devil...LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe story gets messier...again, there was an attempt by Rekers to do damage control.
Lucien, Gi-vanni or what ever name he wants to go by was given a list of possible questions and the answers he was to give to the press about the incident.
He called The Miami New Times who witnessed and recorded Luciens conversation with Rekers about the questionaire.
Lucien was able to get Rekers to admit that the questionaire was put together by NARTHA, the group Rekers heards and claims to be conducting a thorough "investigation" into the incident.
Rekers is trying vainly to ignore the problem and thinks that he can make it go away. Indeed if you go to his web site Prof. George.com,
the first thig up is a disclaimer about the false rumors on a "few" blogs on the internet...then a link to the questionaire with the phony answers....
The more he tries to make it go away, the more will come out. Rekers days are numbered.