The Anti-Gay Minister and His RentBoy

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I always rejoice when lying, hypocrites are exposed.

The man:

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.

The news:

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.

And what was Reker’s reason for hiring his gay escort on Rentboy?

“I had surgery and I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.”

It is one thing to be homophobic because of religious beliefs.  As misguided as these people are, they at least have religious ignorance as an excuse.  It is quite another matter to be a practicing homosexual and make your living by slandering gays and lobbying against gay rights.

We’ve seen right-wing hatemongers, politicians and ministers alike, do this type of thing a number of times – Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Larry Craig.  The list goes on.  At some point, Reker will come clean, enter some institution that will attempt to cleanse him of his horrid “sickness” and seek redemption and forgiveness from Jesus Christ.

And once all of that is done, the gay-bashing will continue until the next homophobic hypocrite is caught with his Rentboy escort at an airline terminal near you.

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