Baptist minister 'took ten-day holiday with male prostitute'

Herodotus

Hilarious story from the other side of the pond. I hear its making quite a ripple through the media since the photo was taken at the airport.

The idea that the most vocal anti-gays tend to be closeted gays themselves hardly comes as a surprise though, especially after seeing the movie Outrage recently.

Everyone remember Ted Haggart?

As taken from the Times

A Baptist minister and leading anti-gay activist faced the ruination of his career yesterday after being photographed returning from a European holiday with a male prostitute.

George Rekers, who sits on the board of a national organisation dedicated to changing the sexuality of gay men and lesbians, hired a companion from a website called Rentboy.com that offers clients a wide range of choices, from “rentboy” and “sugar daddy” to “masseur”.

Dr Rekers said he took the prostitute on the ten-day trip last month to London and Madrid as a travel assistant after a stint in hospital. “I had surgery,” he said when approached this week by the Miami New Times. “I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.” Photographs of the pair emerging from Miami international airport last month show the older man pushing their suitcases on a trolley.

Dr Rekers’s companion has been identified as a 20-year-old Puerto Rican whose entry on the Rentboy.com website gives his name as “Geo”. The site says that he is “sensual”, “wild” and “up for anything”. It also describes him as “versatile”, with a “nice ass”.

Contacted this week by reporters in Miami, he said he was surprised by Dr Rekers’s claim to have realised he was a prostitute only halfway through their holiday.

Geo’s profile on Rentboy.com is a bewildering mix of the banal and the specific. “I’m a college guy, masculine, educated, really easy going,” he says. “Great to get along with, can hold a conversation.” He lists stripping and go-go dancing among his talents. “I will do anything you say as long as you ask,” he promises.

Dr Rekers, who co-founded America’s most powerful Christian lobbying group, has testified as an expert in favour of bans on gay adoption in Florida and Arkansas. He has also written numerous books on homosexuality as a curable condition, including Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know about Homosexuality.

Gay rights advocates called yesterday for him to step down from the board of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (Narth), for which he lectures across the world. He is also closely linked with the Washington-based Family Research Council, which he founded with Dr James Dobson in 1983.

In an e-mailed response to questions about the European trip, he said: “My hero is Jesus Christ who loves even the culturally despised people, including sexual sinners and prostitutes. Like Jesus Christ, I deliberately spend time with sinners with the loving goal to try to help them.”

Dr Rekers also told a blogger who reached him via Facebook: “If you talk with my travel assistant . . . you will find I spent a great deal of time sharing scientific information on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse, and I shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with him in great detail.”

In 2006 Ted Haggard resigned as a leader of the National Association of Evangelicals after a male prostitute claimed to have had sex with him for three years.

Ray Ashburn, a California state senator with a long record of opposing gay rights, was arrested and charged with drunk-driving this year while leaving a gay nightclub in Sacramento. In 1988 Jimmy Swaggart, one of America’s most successful televangelists, was found to have had regular paid sex with prostitutes.

Do as I say ...

• The televangelist Pat Robertson caused outrage when he said that the Haiti earthquake was caused by “a pact to the Devil” sworn by Haitians when they became independent of French rule
• Matt Baker, a Texan minister, was convicted of faking his wife’s suicide in 2009 so that he could have a relationship with a member of his church
• Kent Hovind, a creationist minister with his own dinosaur theme park in Florida, was sentenced to ten years in jail for falsely declaring bankruptcy and threatening investigators in 2006 Hovind paid employees in cash, claiming that they were all workers of God and therefore exempt from taxes
• The TV minister Jim Bakker shocked viewers of his television series when it emerged that he had had an affair with a secretary, paying her off with church funds. He was jailed in 1989 for fraud after paying himself and his wife, Tammy Faye, below, millions of dollars in church funds and concocting a timeshare scam at his theme park in South Carolina

starbelgrade

In 2006 Ted Haggard resigned as a leader of the National Association of Evangelicals after a male prostitute claimed to have had sex with him for three years.

Three years?!! F*ck me, that boy has stamina - my record is 3 minutes!!!!

sponsoredwalk

"I had surgery" :rolleyes:

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starbelgrade wrote: »

my record is 3 minutes!!!!

*Snigger*

Really?

starbelgrade

Leia Fancy Roadside wrote: »

*Snigger*

Really?

No. It's 4, but I don't like to boast.

Goldenquick

He has also written numerous books on homosexuality as a curable condition, including Growing Up Straight: What Families Should Know about Homosexuality.

What a moron! :rolleyes:

Ruu_Old

He will just have to go to rehab and get cured from the gay! A month later "I am cured!".

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Simple excuse: "I was trying to heal the poor soul!"

YOu have to wonder why they set themselves up for it though.

RMD

I love how wacky them religious types are.

This is why I'm always suspicious of people, no matter who they are, who go out of their way to be homophobic.

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Rojomcdojo wrote: »

This is why I'm always suspicious of people, no matter who they are, who go out of their way to be homophobic.

I'd be suspicious of anyone who's homophobic tbh.

Cheap Thrills!

IN YOUR FACE STUPID BIBLE BASING HATER !!!

Feeky Magee

Goldenquick wrote: »

What a moron! :rolleyes:

Do people know what this smiley actually means? ---> :rolleyes:

pablomakaveli

I love it when these idiots are shown up for the hypocrites they are. It's always hilarious to hear their excuses when they are caught.:D

Elenxor

In depth research?

Mad_Dave

hiring an assistant to carry luggage etc while recovering from surgery - vaguely plausible explanation, could have gotten away with that...but he went through a ****ing website called rentboy.com !!! hahahaha - words fail me, they really do.

Duggy747

RentBoy.com, eh?

I wonder if they're hiring............or FÀS is doing a course...............

Either way I love it when these anti-gay types get found out, it's like something that only happens in the movies.

"I swear it's not lube.........eh...............it's margarine!........look!.....om nom nom...............*vomits*"

peanuthead

starbelgrade wrote: »

Three years?!! F*ck me, that boy has stamina - my record is 3 minutes!!!!

Jaysys starbelgrade I'm like your new fan lol Every post I thank these days has your name beside them!!

latenia

peanuthead wrote: »

Jaysys starbelgrade I'm like your new fan lol Every post I thank these days has your name beside them!!

Why don't you ask him to go on holidays with you? He could help you with your lugage.

aDeener

pablomakaveli wrote: »

I love it when these idiots are shown up for the hypocrites they are. It's always hilarious to hear their excuses when they are caught.:D

i think of it more along the lines that they knew they were gay, ashamed of it, and went into preaching against it to hide the fact from the outside world.

Resi12

Words cannot express how delighted I am this has happened, times like this make me believe in Karma.

Just goes to show how powerful his own insecurities can be, fronting a church that damns gay people yet he likes to take 'holidays' with gay prostitutes all because of his denial to himself.

rainbow kirby

Elenxor wrote: »

In depth research?

Balls deep. :pac:

The_Minister

Mad_Dave wrote: »

hiring an assistant to carry luggage etc while recovering from surgery - vaguely plausible explanation, could have gotten away with that...but he went through a ****ing website called rentboy.com !!! hahahaha - words fail me, they really do.

Oddly, the rent boy refuses to say if they had sex or not, and seemed to insinuate the yer man was trying to 'help' him.