Baptist Minister's gay sex scandal wrecks GOP agenda

[Washington, D.C.] Another conservative sex scandal unfolds to disprove conservative morality values and instead affirm hypocrisy as an underlying conservative principle. How will vehemently anti-gay Family Research Council respond to the embarrassing disclosure that founder and Baptist minister George Rekers rented a male prostitute from Rentboy for a 10-day European adventure? MSNBCs Rachel Maddow explains how the scandal impacts American society. Additionally, watch for media bias. How well did the mainstream media cover this event and going forward how will media handle Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council after founding-member George Rekers went to Rentboy for the services of a 20-year-old male prostitute including sexual massages? #
More from the Miami Herald: Professor George, as he styles himself on his website, ProfessorGeorge.com , offers a vaguely plausible (alcohol might help) explanation. He didn't procure the services of a 20-year-old male prostitute to join him on a 10-day-jaunt through England and Spain for purposes of prostitution. ``Following medical advice Professor George Rekers requires an assistant to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery.'' George Rekers was paid handsomely by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum ($60,900) and the state of Arkansas ($60,000), to flog gay men and women as unfit parents. Particularly adoptive parents. As a bonus, at no extra charge, Rekers testified in Miami-Dade Circuit Court that he also considered American Indians to be in the same risky category. Rekers, 61, of North Miami, a Baptist minister and a retired professor of behavior science, has long provided academic cover for the Christian right's anti-gay agenda. He's written books, delivered lectures and provided pithy quotes that intimate a scientific basis for opposition to gay adoption and gay marriage. Rekers' credibility had already suffered when Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman, tossing Florida's anti-gay adoption law in 2008, found ``Dr. Rekers' beliefs are motivated by his strong ideological and theological convictions that are not consistent with the science.'' The judge added that ``the court can not consider his testimony to be credible nor worthy of forming the basis of public policy.'' Professor George, you've lighted the way for debauching phonies everywhere. #
Opinion based on various news reports and segment from MSNBCs Rachel Maddow show.

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[Lemileant]

@collegeguy2007 Welcome to the U.S. news cycle, where hypocrisy and sensationalism runs rampant. Enjoy your stay.

[collegeguy2007]

this is fucked up shit... just saying from canada.

[vanderroos]

LOL, how wonderful. I have found if you just wait long enough all those misogynistic hypocritical homophobes always out themselves sooner or later. I bet he is a "good christian" as well !

[NickVailas]

Wow life really is one long ass comedy. lol

[TheWitchOvAgnesi]

How does this "disprove conservative morality values?"

This guy was obviously is a hypocrit and a fruit.

This is par for the course for democrats, so no one balks at it because it's expected.

[RodTalon0000]

These people are SOCIOPATHS... they make millions feel ashamed including young people... and then do these things themselves!!! Assholes. People are BORN homosexual, doh. If it was curable dont you think these men and women that say its curable would be CURED! ITS NOT CURABLE, because its NOT a disease!!! lol lol