Post by anansi on May 7, 2010 4:05:05 GMT -5
FRC Founding Board Member Discovered Traveling With "Rent Boy"
Submitted by Kyle on May 4, 2010 - 12:08pm
In 1983, George Rekers joined James Dobson and a handful of others in founding the Family Research Council.
Last month, Rekers was reportedly discovered returning from an overseas trip with a "rent boy":
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.
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." (Though medical problems didn't stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)
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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 politics, 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.
Now being gay is not my thing I could really care-less either way..but it seems every far right Republican is Gay..not only that but they are very anti-gay in politics and with the Family values thing..they claim they want less government in peoples lives yet find it hard..(no pun intended) to just leave others be!! I ifnd that the most loudest anti-gay bashers are Gay themselves. it is as if us straight guys are not anti-gays it is the pent-up gays with power who are anti-gay...go figure!!!
www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc-founding-board-
member-discovered-traveling-rent-boy
Stop being hyrocrites..leave people alone.. ;D
Submitted by Kyle on May 4, 2010 - 12:08pm
In 1983, George Rekers joined James Dobson and a handful of others in founding the Family Research Council.
Last month, Rekers was reportedly discovered returning from an overseas trip with a "rent boy":
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.
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." (Though medical problems didn't stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)
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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 politics, 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.
Now being gay is not my thing I could really care-less either way..but it seems every far right Republican is Gay..not only that but they are very anti-gay in politics and with the Family values thing..they claim they want less government in peoples lives yet find it hard..(no pun intended) to just leave others be!! I ifnd that the most loudest anti-gay bashers are Gay themselves. it is as if us straight guys are not anti-gays it is the pent-up gays with power who are anti-gay...go figure!!!
www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc-founding-board-
member-discovered-traveling-rent-boy
Stop being hyrocrites..leave people alone.. ;D
