Rekers is one of the founding members of the anti-homosexual organization known as Family Research Council and a prominent member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH). During a vacation in Europe, he was spotted with a young male at the airport. As it turns out, the young male was a hired gay prostitute from the rentboy.com website. Here is the story: "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 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.) Yet Rekers wouldn't deny he met his slender, blond escort at Rentboy.com — which features homepage images of men in bondage and grainy videos of crotch-rubbing twinks — and Lucien confirmed it. At the small western Miami townhome he shares with a roommate, a nervous Lucien expressed surprise when we told him that Rekers denied knowing about his line of work from the beginning. "He should've been able to tell you that," he said, fidgeting and fixing his eyes on his knees. "But that's up to him." Rekers lectures worldwide, from Europe to the Middle East, on teen sexuality. Yet during his ten-day sojourn with Lucien to London and Madrid, he had no lectures scheduled. Both men deny having sex on the trip, and emails exchanged between the two before their jaunt are cautiously worded. "I'd like to propose another trip to Rome, Italy, for a week or more," Rekers wrote in an email dated March 21 obtained by New Times. "This is so exciting to have a nice Travel Assistant and traveling companion! Wow! I'm so glad I met you." "I called and talked to the reservation guy in London and reserved a room with two twin beds," Rekers wrote on March 26. "Now that I'm packed, tomorrow I'll work on completing my income tax return," Rekers wrote two days later. "Not fun... But I'll just remind myself that the fun trip is coming soon." In his interview with New Times, Lucien didn't want to impugn his client, but he made it clear they met through Rentboy.com, which is the only website on which he advertises his services. Neither Google nor any other search engine picks up individual Rentboy.com profiles, any more than they pick up individual profiles on eHarmony or Match.com. You cannot just happen upon one. The fallout from the scandal is doing more than just discrediting the Family Research Council, it's also taking down politicians. Indeed, the George Rekers scandal might have a second victim. Bill McCollum is Florida's state attorney general and is running for the Republican nomination for governor. Newspapers across the state are vilifying him for his connection with Rekers. McCollum hired Rekers for $120,000 to testify in a trial to defend Florida’s ban on adoptions by gay or lesbian parents. The candidate for governor said he hired Rekers because he looked long and hard and had trouble finding other expert witnesses. The state’s newspapers point out that it was because Rekers’ points are based on junk science. Florida is the only state with such a ban, and real experts know there is no reason for qualified gays or lesbian to be prevented from adopting.
I don't think it makes him gay if he is only getting noggin from that rent-a-fag bastard. He was probably trying to exorcise the demon in him by filling him with man goo.
That's one of the things Rekers said in his defense. He said that he was having private sessions with the male prostitute to have deep conversations about God. By deep he probably meant what you said. :biggrin:
