Family Research Council Founder and NARTH Board Member Caught With Rent Boy

George Alan Rekers, a founder, along with James Dobson, of the Family Research Council, was caught returning to Miami from a 10-day trip to Europe with a young man he hired from rentboy.com, according to the Miami New Times.  The rent boy, called Lucien in the article, had all expenses paid by Rekers.  Rekers is a Baptist minister and a leading voice in the fight against gay adoption and marriage equality.  According to the article:

"Rekers is a board member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), an organization that systematically attempts to turn gay people straight. And the Huffington Post recently singled out Rekers as a member of the American College of Pediatricians — an official-sounding outfit in Gainesville that purveys lurid, youth-directed literature accusing gays of en masse coprophilia. (In an email, the college's Lisa Hawkins wrote, "ACPeds feels privileged to have a scholar of Dr. Rekers' stature affiliated with our organization. I am sure you will find Prof. Rekers to be an immaculate clinician/scholar, and a warm human being.")"

According to the article, both Rekers and Lucien admit that they met through rentboy.com.  Hilariously, Rekers claims that he only hired Lucien to lift his bags because he had surgery and can't handle heavy lifting.  The New Times easily debunks this:

"To arrive at Lucien's site, Rekers must have accepted Rentboy.com's terms of use, thereby acknowledging he was not offended by graphic sexual material. He then would have been transported to a front page covered with images of naked, tumescent men busily sodomizing each other.  Then Rekers must have performed a search. Did he want a "rentboy," a "sugar daddy," or a "masseur"? In what country? And what city? If Rekers searched for a rent boy in Miami, he would have found approximately 80 likely candidates. He must have scrolled down the first page, past the shirtless bears and desperate ex-models, and on to page 2. There, at last, was Lucien."

Seems like a lot trouble to go to to hire somebody to pick up your suitcase. 

Maybe someday people will realize that the anti-gay right is filled with repressed homosexuals who can't deal with their personal issues in an adult way and therefore project their self-loathing onto the rest of society.  These people are disgusting. 

More about Rekers at Truth Wins Out.