{"id":1426,"date":"2010-05-08T02:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2010-05-08T02:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T09:30:37","slug":"the-rest-of-the-rekers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/the-rest-of-the-rekers-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rest of the Rekers Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is so typical for the Theocon wing of the GOP.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"SafeZoneStopSign\"<\/a> An antigay psychologist’s recent trip to Europe with a gay male escort from Miami has captivated readers and viewers around the world. <\/p>\n

Salacious stories have been published from South Florida to New Zealand, and it has been the butt of jokes by Jay Leno, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n

And on Friday, the young escort at the center of the scandal spoke with CNN correspondent Randi Kaye for Anderson Cooper’s prime-time show. <\/p>\n

Jo-vanni Roman \u2014 a k a Geo and Lucien \u2014 told Kaye that psychologist George A. Rekers, an officer of the conservative National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and a retired University of South Carolina professor, paid him $75 a day plus expenses<\/strong> to travel with him for two weeks in April to London and Madrid. <\/p>\n

Included for the money: Roman, 20, would give nude "sexual" massages to Rekers, 61, every day during their trip, the younger man told Kaye.<\/p>\n

Gay activists and bloggers have pounced on the story: Rekers, a well-known antigay activist, recently was paid more than $120,000 by Florida to testify in defense of the state’s gay-adoption ban<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Rekers acknowledged traveling with Roman but denied having sex with him. The professor said he hired Roman to carry his luggage during their trip\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Frankly, I don\u2019t care if Rekers is gay.  That\u2019s his own business, except for one thing.  He is making it his life\u2019s mission to destroy the lives of others who engage in the same behavior he does, because of their sexual orientation.  Were he to come clean, admit that he is gay, and apologize to the LGBT community for focusing his own self-hatred on them, I would praise him for turning away from GOP hypocrisy.  Rachel Maddow has an excellent perspective on this.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If any of you are enterprising types, you might consider a website that caters to the assorted peccadilloes that the GOP love to hate and do.  I checked a couple hours ago and larrycraigslist.com is available.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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