Christian leader caught HAVING "BAGGAGE" HANDLED BY BOY

[benjamus]

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/chr...eeded-luggage/

A Christian leader and prominent neuro-psychiatrist who co-founded the Family Research Council with evangelist James Dobson took a ten-day European vacation with a callboy he met through RentBoy.com and was caught in an airport with the escort by a Miami newspaper.

The escort said he had met George Rekers, professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina, on RentBoy.com. Rekers, when confronted, didn't deny that he'd met the callboy online, but said he had hired him to help him carry his baggage and didn't learn he was generally hired for "private company" until mid-way through his European vacation.

"I had surgery," Rekers told Miami's New Times, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." (The paper noted that it didn't stop him from pushing a "tottering" pile of luggage through Miami International Airport.)

The callboy, identified by a pseudonym, told the New Times' Penn Bullock and Brandon Thorp that Rekers claim that he didn't know his "line of work" seemed spurious.

According to Penn and Thorp, the slender, 20-year-old escort's profile advertises his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock." RentBoy.com's profiles are not indexed by Google.

“It is clear that Rekers has baggage and certainly needs help,” said Wayne Besen, a prominent opponent of the "ex-gay" movement and director of the nonprofit Truth Wins Out. Referring to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a conservative who claimed he was hiking when he'd actually been meeting with a mistress, he added: “At least he did not say he was walking the Appalachian Trail.”

"This is a bombshell that completely discredits the ex-gay industry and proves that the movement is a fraud,” Besen added.

The paper printed emails exchanged between the professor and the escort prior to their trip. Rekers co-founded the conservative and anti-gay Family Research Council with Rev. James Dobson in 1983.

"I'd like to propose another trip to Rome, Italy, for a week or more," Rekers purportedly wrote in an Mar. 21 email 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 allegedly remarked in a later email.

Rekers is a prominent advocate against gays in Florida, where he resides. He testified against Florida allowing gay couples to adopt, asserting that children of gay couples "living with a practicing homosexual in the adoptive home,” are especially “vulnerable to psychological damage and an increasing inability to adapt."

A commenter on a California Catholic daily, which reported the findings of Rekers' investigations into gay adoption, remarked, "The active principle in these children's stress is the fact that their welfare comes in dead last in the homosexual lifestyle - it is oriented toward grooming them for traumatic early sexualization and exploitation by adults."

The escort told New Times that Rekers is "primarily a family man," despite their European jaunt.

"You don't understand how much this guy honestly cares about taking care of kids," he was quoted as saying.

RENTBOY.COM, sounds like a solid business plan

[Pirian]

Well...It does sound like he needs help with his baggage. It just doesn't seem that the literal baggage is what he was referring to

[archibaldcrane]

Because you're lazy, I'll post a better article.

Is Every Right-Wing, Anti-Gay Christian Bigot Sucking Off Rent Boys?
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM

We've got another one, gang, and he's a doozy:

The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his "smooth, sweet, tight ass" and "perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)" and explains he is "sensual," "wild," and "up for anything"—as long you ask first. And as long as you pay. 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.) 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.

Rekers, as Joe Jervis points out, is the co-founder of the wildly anti-gay Family Research Council and a member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), an organization that claims to "cure" gay people.
http://www.thestranger.com/images/bl...gyourchild.jpg
Rekers is also the author of Shaping Your Child's Sexual Identity. I haven't read the book but I'm guessing it encourages parents to believe that they can shape their children's sexual identities. Which, of course, they can't. (Lord knows my partner and I tried.) Rekers is also a member of the American College of Pediatrics, a fake pediatricians organization formed by religious conservatives to counter the reality-based American Academy of Pediatrics (which opposes "curing" gay people, argues for more support for gay youth, and backs gay marriage and adoptions by gay couples).

Let's pause to savor this moment... and then let's get to work. We have to do all we can to make sure "lift my luggage" enters the lexicon alongside "hike the Appalachian trail."

[archibaldcrane]

He needed help lifting his luggage because he takes a wide stance while hiking the Appalachian Trail.

[Qalbert]

so unlazy you posted it twice

[Beckwin]

these stories always brighten my day

[archibaldcrane]

so unlazy you posted it twice

I did no such thing.

[Elvis]

It's his fault for bringing baggage into a warzone.

[Akucaen]

More lolreligious nuts preaching hate and doing what they say not to. Is anyone honestly surprised?

[benjamus]

ARCHI how is your article better? yeah its totally not

[Ksandra]

ARCHI how is your article better? yeah its totally not

I liked his better because when I read yours it tried to imply the guy was Catholic.

AND he actually posted the link (which qal had to put in yours since you didn't)

[Egon]

Christianity's worse enemy is Christians. To bad they give a bad name for all of us.

[Jaybar]

lolreligion amirite.

[archibaldcrane]

ARCHI how is your article better? yeah its totally not

As if I read your article, I just noticed that it didn't have a photo of two youthful lumberjacks in the wildnerness as the cover of a book called "Shaping your Child's Sexual Identity" and immediately realized how superior my article was to yours.

It's ok to be bad at life though, try not to get too mad.

[BadKarma]

lolreligion amirite.

inb4 Vajra.


Also no you're wrong.

[benjamus]

cant argue with facts i suppose.

[Effluo]

inb4 Neo and christians are worse than Hitler.

[Melchiah]

Christianity's worse enemy is Christians. To bad they give a bad name for all of us.

Smartest thing you've ever said.

Also, you're judged by the company you keep.

[Egon]

Hopefully no one at my church is a pedo, so I don't consider myself to be with bad company.

[Beckwin]

someone at your church probably is.

real talk