Various Internet sites are claiming to “out” Rev. George Alan Rekers, a Baptist minister with a long anti-homosexual history of writings and sermons. For his part, Rekers is threatening a defamation lawsuit after stories appeared that he had hired a 20-year-old young man to travel with him from a gay escort site.
Rekers has been a leader in gay-to-straight conversion-therapy and is a co-founder in 1983 with James Dobson of Family Research Council.
Rekers insisted that he did not know that his companion worked as a gay male escort when he took him on a 10-day European vacation. He said that he hired him because he could not life his own luggage due to a surgery. He does admit that he learned of his profession halfway through the trip and that he did meet the the man on Rentboy.com. The site advertises young men “up for anything” and contains pornographic details of their physiques.
Referring to the escort as “Lucien,” Rekers reportedly stated in a message to his followers:
“I seek to lovingly share two types of messages to them [homosexuals], as I did with the young man called ‘Lucien’ in the news story: It is possible to cease homosexual practices to avoid the unacceptable health risks associated with that behavior, and the most important decision one can make is to establish a relationship with God for all eternity by trusting in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins, including homosexual sins.”
As a public figure, Rekers will have difficulty under the New York Times v. Sullivan standard in pursuing a lawsuit. Moreover, given the public vacation, it may be equally difficult to allege the disclosure of embarrassing private facts.
You responders are an unfair lot. George “Home” Rekers CLEARLY has dedicated his life to converting the hummaseksha community one rentboy at a time! So what’s the problem? Why doesn’t anybody believe this poor man? (snork)
BTW,
I’m changing my name tomorrow!
Buddha,
I don’t think Jesus had anything to do with this mess.
His “servants” on the other hand…
And that ‘tash was never seen as a dead giveaway????!
‘Rentboy.com.’
oh, please…the only place to find a medical escort.
BiL,
“….when a grown man names his penis “luggage”….”
bwahahahahaha!…
dammit,no more coffee at the puter…
ruined another perfectly clean shirt….I blame you….
Hypocrites!
Papal cover-ups!
General naughtiness!
Just when things couldn’t be worse for Lord Jesus Christ, he gets hit by a car.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37015837/ns/us_news-weird_news/
Man, Hypocrisy, Religion … Rekers is living a story as old as time. Did he actually think rent-a-boy would keep his mouth shut … AY, you’re welcome.
No, Byron. You’d assume wrong. The moon exists whether you believe it does or not and independent of observation. The point was that mutually contradictory states are possible within the same dataspace dependent upon observation. Observation does not change reality, it merely fixes it in time and/or space, and the nature of said observation is relative to the observers position in spacetime to the observed.
the cat is either alive or dead, you just havent percieved it’s state. So I assume you believe that something isnt so until it is pervieved by a human being?
HHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I love Christian hypocrisy!!!!
He will now pull a “Haggard” and pray his gay away … I LOVE it!!
Buddha:
http://www.cartoonstock.com/101_dead_cats/index.htm
“Lighten up” being an optics joke, of course.
Byron,
You obviously didn’t read the article.
Until you observe the cat, it is neither alive nor dead but both and therefore contradicts the idea that something cannot contain multiple contradictory data points, i.e. to be and not be.
It’s a quantum mechanics joke! Lighten up.
Buddha:
how does that contradict what I said? All he is talking about is the probability of some random occurrence.
A dead cat is still a cat in any event. It no longer has animation but it is still recognizable as a cat.
Byron,
“A thing (nature, person, etc) cannot be and not be at the same time”
Not exactly accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
That being said, Rekers is indeed a victim of his own internal conflict. It is well established that many mental disorders rest on paradoxical beliefs.
… he could not lift his own luggage due to a surgery.
I guess he need help to lift his … well … carry-on package.
It is not conservatism nor liberalism that is to blame but religion. It so clouded this mans mind with tremendous guilt he was unable to be true to his nature.
The psychology of this individual must be horrendous. Maybe he can now live the remainder of his life at peace.
“A thing (nature, person, etc) cannot be and not be at the same time”
Thing is not used in a derogatory manor.
UPDATE: “The escort now says Rekers is indeed gay, and that Rekers paid him to perform daily nude body rubs during their European jaunt. “It’s a situation where he’s going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual,” the young man told the New Times, adding that Rekers — who repeatedly asked for a move he dubbed “The Long Stroke” — ought to divorce himself from his many anti-gay associations.
Rekers has a new explanation for the trip. “I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them,” he said in a statement posted on Facebook.”
And then there’s this bit of wisdom:
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, `Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
~Luke 6:41
I guess the “rent a boy” let the cat out of the bag! This lawsuit has a snowballs chance in Heck to win. As usual with the Republicans who rail against gays, “me think he doth protest too much!”
I laughed when I read the original story.
I’m laughing harder now.
There is very little funnier than busted hypocrisy but when a grown man names his penis “luggage”, that’s just inherently funny.