Gay Hooker Patron Dr. George Rekers Was Paid $87K To Stop Gay Adoption In Florida

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When the story broke yesterday that NARTH member and Family Research Council co-founder Dr. George Rekers had patronized a male prostitute, some of you noted his role is Florida's campaign to maintain its ban on gay adoption. Towleroad recaps that for us this morning:

"Rekers was one of only two witnesses Attorney General Bill McCollum called in an effort to reverse a Miami judge who ruled Florida's adoption ban- the only one in the country- is unconstitutional. McCollum paid Rekers and a colleague $87,000 for testimony that called gay people mentally unstable and advised that the ban should be expanded to include Native Americans because, Rekers claimed, they are also at much higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse. 'They would tend to hang around each other,' Rekers testified. 'So the children would be around a lot of other Native Americans who are … doing the same sorts of things.' (...)

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http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/05/gay-hooker-patron-dr-george-rekers-was.html

More from Towleroad

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(...) In an article from 2005, Reker compares allowing gay people seeking to adopt to terrorists and drug dealers: 'This is not basically different from denying placement in other households with structures that are not in the best interests of children. Fifteen-year-old couples, 90-year-old couples, Thai-language-only speaking couples, blind and deaf parents, households with a pedophilic-behaving adult, households with practicing criminals, households with drug dealers and drug abusers, households with unemployed adults, households that advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government, households with an active terrorist, households with sexually promiscuous unmarried men and women co-habitating and households with homosexually behaving adults all have either inherent instability or inherent disadvantage, stress, and potential harm to placed children.'"

And from Good As You:

Dr. George Rekers: 34 years of 'curing' gays/lesbians/'travel assistants'

All over this here web, there's all sorts of info about Dr. George Rekers and the help he apparently needs with his baggage. So we're not going to rehash it here.

We are, however, going to give you some background into why this bizarre development is of such note to modern-day gay rights activists. It's because anyone who has lived as an openly LGBT person in the past four decades has been subjected to Dr. Reker's hurtful, anti-scientific teachings:

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2010/05/dr-george-rekers-34-years-of-curing-gayslesbianstravel-assistants.html

[DURHAM D]

1. AG McCollum was one of the most vocal members of Congress -

for impeachment of Bill Clinton. He was one of the House Handlers. Every time I saw him on the tv I thought - Gay Hypocrite.

I am surprised he has not been outed. Someone needs to check rentboy very closely.

He needs to be investigated for bogus state expenditures and impeached.

[peace frog]

5. ..and McCollum will very likely

be the next governor of Florida, given how lamely his Dem opponent has been running her campaign. It's no wonder he led the call for Clinton's impeachment, Jeb Bush was FL governor at the time and in a position to make certain McCollum would be well rewarded.

[glinda]

2. Include Native Americans? Well that should go over well.....

[glinda]

3. Dupe. Self Delete.

[grantcart]

4. Reker did not attend Fuller and wasn't a professor there either

Interstingly enough he got his PHd from UCLA http://www.professorgeorge.com/Welcome_to_ProfessorGeorge.com.html

Also has his email lol

[Bolo Boffin]

6. "Cattle prods on autistic children"???

His colleague Dr. Lovaas is known for his use of electric cattle prods in "behaviour modification therapy" on autistic children.

Rekers and his fellow therapists are the true evil here.

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7. Update: What Does Florida AG Bill McCollum Have To Say About Dr. George Rekers NOW?

From Joe.My.God.~

I've been on the phone with the Florida Attorney General's office and the Bill McCollum For Governor campaign trying to get a statement and/or reaction to the Dr. George Rekers prostitution scandal.

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... I spoke to communications staffer Rachel Sloan. Sloan was unaware of the story, but was quite cooperative and opened a press request file for me, to be sent to her superiors and (presumably) McCollum via their Blackberrys today.

I explained to Sloan that we expect McCollum to answer for his payment of $87,000 to an anti-gay so-called "expert witness" on gay parenting, a man who has now been exposed as a closeted homosexual himself and a patron of male prostitutes at that. Here are the three questions posted to Attorney General Bill McCollum, for which we await a response.

1. How was Dr. George Rekers selected as an expert witness? (What due diligence was performed to ascertain his credentials? Who recommended him to the Attorney General's office?)

2. Where did the funding come from to pay Rekers and his associate their $87,000 fee? (And is there a mechanism for the state to demand back their fee now that Rekers has been exposed?)

3. Will Attorney General McCollum now publicly denounce Dr. Rekers as a fraud, a liar, and a hypocrite?

I cautioned both of McCollom's flacks that this WILL be a very big issue in his gubernatorial campaign, since he's been "palling around with guys who patronize male prostitutes."

UPDATE: McCollum's office is stonewalling us and passing the buck to the Florida Department of Children and Families. Calling THEM now. And calling the campaign offices of all of McCollum's opponents, both Democrats and GOP.

UPDATE II: Everybody please go to McCollum's campaign Facebook page and DEMAND his response to the outrage of paying Dr. George Rekers $87,000 to help destroy Florida's gay families! Do it NOW.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/05/what-does-florida-ag-bill-mccullom-have.html

[Orlandodem]

8. Bump