George Rekers

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 8/31/2010 5:55 pm

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 6/4/2010 5:40 pm
  • PFAW President Michael B. Keegan: A New Debate on the Court and the Constitution.

  • Think Progress: Defending Raghead Comment, South Carolina State Senator Says ‘We’re At War’ With Foreign Countries.

  • Ezra Klein: The concerned speed-readers of America.

  • Sarah Posner: Scott Roeder's Religion.

  • Good As You: Only 13 groups have the SPLC's 'anti-gay hate group' label. Here's NOM applauding one of them...

  • The Advocate: OK City Pol Likens Gays to Pedophiles.

  • Phoenix New Times: Chris Simcox Allegedly Threatened To Kill Family and Cops, According To Wife's Order of Protection.

  • Andy Birkey: Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic receives state funds.

  • Joe.My.God: Florida AG Bill McCollum Hired Dr. George Rekers Against The Advice Of Own Staff.

  • David Neiwert: Foxheads freak out when Rep. Linda Sanchez points out the white supremacists lurking behind Arizona's immigration law.

Liberty Counsel Willing To Stand With Rekers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 5/13/2010 10:45 am

Last week, Family Research Council co-founder George Rekers was discovered returning from an overseas trip with a "rent boy."

Since then, FRC has issued a statement distancing itself from Rekers, saying it had had no contact with him in over a decade, he's resigned from the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, been scrubbed from the University of South Carolina medical school's website, and announced that he is undergoing spiritual therapy so that he can "can more fully understand my weaknesses" ... all while threatening to sue anyone who says he is gay.

What kind of law firm would be willing to represet Rekers in such a suit, you ask?

The Jerry Falwell-founded kind, of course: 

A leading religious legal defense group said it is standing with George A. Rekers, the conservative expert on gay behavior who has seen his career implode amid media reports that he took a young gay travel companion to Europe with him.

Officials at the Liberty Counsel said Wednesday they would back Mr. Rekers if he followed through on his threat this week to sue media outlets and others for trying to discredit him.

"I think [Mr. Rekers] would have a great case to file a defamation action," said Mathew D. Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel said.

"I think it was a completely arranged setup," he said, referring to the presence of writers of the free weekly Miami New Times at Miami International Airport when Mr. Rekers and his hired travel companion arrived in the United States April 13.

I can't even say this is surprising, as Liberty Counsel easily ranks among the most viciously anti-gay organizations operating today. 

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 5/12/2010 5:46 pm
  • Tapped: Arizona Governor Signs Bill Banning Ethnic Studies.

  • Crooks and Liars: Buchanan: Obama 'Dummied Down' Supreme Court by Giving Appointments to People Who Are Not the Best and Brightest.

  • Steve Benen: GOP Reconsiders The Importance of Empathy.

  • TPM: Perpetual Money Machine: Conservative PAC Raises Millions In Order To Raise More Millions.

  • Joe.My.God: George Rekers: I Am Getting Spiritual Counseling For My Weaknesses.

  • Towleroad: Laura Bush on Marriage — Gay Couples 'Should Have the Same Rights' as Everyone Else.

  • Alan Colmes: SC Luv Guv Back With Argentine Mistress.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 5/10/2010 5:52 pm
  • Peter Montgomery, PFAW Senior Fellow: Christian Right's Favorite Muslim Convert Exposed as Jihadi Fraud.

  • Brian Beutler: Top Strategist Advises GOP To Prolong SCOTUS Fight To Block Obama Agenda.

  • Media Matters: Myths and falsehoods about Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination.

  • Joe.My.God: British Christianists Copy The Anti-Gay Manhattan Declaration.

  • Alvin McEwen: Religious right can lie about gay community without George Rekers.

  • Charles Lemos: The Jacobin Right Seizes Control of the Maine GOP.

  • Think Progress: Gov. McDonnell appoints Nixon’s ‘Jew counter’ to help reform Virginia’s government.

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 5/7/2010 5:35 pm
  • Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has been forced to issue a statement trying to explain why his office paid George Rekers $120,000 for his anti-gay testimony.

  • Marco Rubio sits down for an interview with Human Events.

  • Frank Pavone says his "pro-life freedom rides" are just like the civil rights movement: "In that case, it was skin color. Today, it's the age of the child -- the fact that the child is still in the womb. But it's the same fundamental mistake that we think that we can exclude some human beings."

  • I'm starting to think that the GOP is being run by Bartleby, the Scrivener.

  • You know, if the National Day of Prayer is going to go on again next year even with government recognition, then why is the Right so miffed? Nobody is trying to stop them from holding events.

  • Finally, don't let the United Nations destroy Mother's Day.

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 5/6/2010 5:22 pm
  • The Family Research Council finally responds to the news regarding its co-founder George Rekers by claiming that haven't had contact with him in over a decade.

  • Mike Huckabee wants the border sealed ... and wants you to join him in wanting it.

  • James Dobson says sleepovers are dangerous.

  • You know, George W. Bush had two opportunities to nominate evangelicals to the Supreme Court, but Ken Blackwell prefers to attack Obama.

  • Just a reminder that right-wing groups do more than oppose gays and abortion ... like helping people censor books they find offensive from their local library.

  • Finally, the incoherent quote of the day from the AFA 's Bryan Fischer: "Shahzad tried to bomb Times Square first because of his hatred for George Bush, a hatred constantly inflamed by the loose bloviating of Barack Obama. And, secondly, he tried to bomb Times Square in retaliation for drone attacks on his countrymen ordered by Barack Obama. So we've got a tidy little package here. It's all Barack Hussein Obama's fault. Obama himself says so without even realizing it."

FRC Founding Board Member Discovered Traveling With "Rent Boy"

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 5/4/2010 2:08 pm

In 1983, George Rekers joined James Dobson and a handful of others in founding the Family Research Council.

Last month, Rekers was reportedly discovered returning from an overseas trip with a "rent boy":

On April 13, the "rent boy" (whom we'll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.

That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy's client and, as it happens, one of America's most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.

Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. "I had surgery," Rekers said, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him." (Though medical problems didn't stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)

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For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America's best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become a standard-bearer of the nation's extreme right wing. Its annual Values Summit is considered a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls, and Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter have spoken there. (The Family Research Council would not comment about Rekers's Euro-trip.)

He has also influenced American politics, serving in advisory roles with Congress, the White House, and the Department of Health and Human Services and testifying as a state's witness in favor of Florida's gay adoption ban. A former research fellow at Harvard University and a distinguished professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina, Rekers has published papers and books by the hundreds, with titles like Who Am I? Lord and Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know About Homosexuality.

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Last week, Family Research Council co-founder George Rekers was discovered returning from an overseas trip with a "rent boy." Since then, FRC has issued a statement distancing itself from Rekers, saying it had had no contact with him in over a decade, he's resigned from the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality, been scrubbed from the University of South Carolina medical school's website, and announced that he is undergoing spiritual therapy so that he can "can more fully understand my weaknesses" ... all while threatening to sue anyone who... MORE >
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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has been forced to issue a statement trying to explain why his office paid George Rekers $120,000 for his anti-gay testimony. Marco Rubio sits down for an interview with Human Events. Frank Pavone says his "pro-life freedom rides" are just like the civil rights movement: "In that case, it was skin color. Today, it's the age of the child -- the fact that the child is still in the womb. But it's the same fundamental mistake that we think that we can exclude some human beings." I'm starting to think that the GOP ... MORE >
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SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 05/06/2010, 5:22pm
The Family Research Council finally responds to the news regarding its co-founder George Rekers by claiming that haven't had contact with him in over a decade. Mike Huckabee wants the border sealed ... and wants you to join him in wanting it. James Dobson says sleepovers are dangerous. You know, George W. Bush had two opportunities to nominate evangelicals to the Supreme Court, but Ken Blackwell prefers to attack Obama. Just a reminder that right-wing groups do more than oppose gays and abortion ... like helping people censor books they find offensive from their local... MORE >
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SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 05/04/2010, 2:08pm
In 1983, George Rekers joined James Dobson and a handful of others in founding the Family Research Council. Last month, Rekers was reportedly discovered returning from an overseas trip with a "rent boy": On April 13, the "rent boy" (whom we'll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart. That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami... MORE >