The Preacher and the Rent-boy

[Yogzotot]

For me the scariest part of the whole story is the fact that Rekers adopts 16 year old boys. I heard about the story when it broke, but have just read the piece that starts this threat. <shudders>

 

[cwalner]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsme..._from_board_of_ex-gay_group_narth.php?ref=fpb

Rekers quits NARTH

I found this quote interesting

"NARTH has never had any role in advising Dr. Rekers except to suggest that if he is innocent he needs to get a good lawyer," Pruden said in an email

Unless there are pending charges of solicitation that I am unaware of, I do not see why a lawyer would be neccesary.

The issue is not the legality of whay Rekers did, but the hypocrisy.

 

[Monketi Ghost]

The most fascinating part about all of this is how much money that rent-boy makes. I just found a new career.

On the application form, they ask : "Do you have a perfectly built eight inch c*&#?"

Well?

 

[bookitty]

For me the scariest part of the whole story is the fact that Rekers adopts 16 year old boys. I heard about the story when it broke, but have just read the piece that starts this threat. <shudders>

Actually no. The son is 20. If he had been molested, he would have come forward by now.

Rekers adopted the boy at 14. There is no indication that Rekers is a pedophile. Also, judging from the Rentboy's side of the story, he prefers friendly, gentle, mutual masturbation. Something that is very, very different from molestation.

There is a very good possibility that Rekers himself is proof that adoption into a gay family is not harmful to children. Here we have a guy who prefers younger men but to his own son was just a dad and a role-model. (Except for the whole lying, scumbag, hypocrite part.) I can not wait to see how opponents of NARTH use this information.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Actually no. The son is 20. If he had been molested, he would have come forward by now.

Rekers adopted the boy at 14. There is no indication that Rekers is a pedophile. Also, judging from the Rentboy's side of the story, he prefers friendly, gentle, mutual masturbation. Something that is very, very different from molestation.

I don't think that is actually incomparable with pederasty. He could coerce the kind of sex he wants and it is still molestation. Direct force and violence are not required.

I think there is no evidence that he is a pederast, but that is poor reasoning.

 

[Simon39759]

I found this quote interesting

Unless there are pending charges of solicitation that I am unaware of, I do not see why a lawyer would be neccesary.

The issue is not the legality of whay Rekers did, but the hypocrisy.

To sue the journals, maybe?
Lawyer are not for defense, they also are an offensive weapon (and make rather good compost to boot).

 

[Scott Haley]

Rekers on adoption.

One argument against gay marriage and adoption by gay couples is that a child needs a mother and a father. I found this in a paper Dr. Rekers wrote:

III. The inherent structure of foster-parent households with one or more homosexually-behaving members deprives foster children of vitally needed positive contributions to child adjustment that are only present in licensed heterosexual foster homes.
Homosexual foster-parent households lack a daily resident model of either a mother or a father, lack the unique contributions of either a mother or a father to childrearing, and lack a model of a husband/wife relationship which is significantly healthier, substantially more stable socially and psychologically, and is more widely approved compared to homosexual lifestyles. The best child adjustment results from living with a married man and woman compared to other family structures.
It is clearly in the best interests of foster children to be placed with exclusively heterosexual married-couple foster families because this natural family structure inherently provides unique needed benefits and produces better child adjustment than is generally the case in households with a homosexually-behaving adult.

Yet Dr. Rekers has been a foster parent with no wife, and has
adopted a son as a single man. He doesn't practice what he preaches.

 

[pgwenthold]

One argument against gay marriage and adoption by gay couples is that a child needs a mother and a father. I found this in a paper Dr. Rekers wrote:



Yet Dr. Rekers has been a foster parent with no wife, and has
adopted a son as a single man. He doesn't practice what he preaches.

Don't you realize? Having two loving, caring parents of the same sex is SOOOO damaging that it is better to only have one.

 

[Robo Sapien]

The rent-a-boy thought he had it made by renting himself out, collecting loads of cash just to have sex with old guys. Much to his chagrin when Rekers hired him and made him to yardwork instead. Pro landscapers do a better job for cheaper, but they refuse to shave their backs and work naked.

 

[bookitty]

I don't think that is actually incomparable with pederasty. He could coerce the kind of sex he wants and it is still molestation. Direct force and violence are not required.

I think there is no evidence that he is a pederast, but that is poor reasoning.

No, the idea that Rekers molested his son(s) because he is gay doesn't make sense. Homosexual does not equal predator. Even the most self-loathing, closeted homosexual bigot could still be a caring father.

 

[ponderingturtle]

No, the idea that Rekers molested his son(s) because he is gay doesn't make sense. Homosexual does not equal predator. Even the most self-loathing, closeted homosexual bigot could still be a caring father.

I agree with that, but you included a false statement.

Also, judging from the Rentboy's side of the story, he prefers friendly, gentle, mutual masturbation. Something that is very, very different from molestation.

This is entirely wrong, there is nothing incompatible with gentle mutual masturbation and molestation.

 

[shandyjan]

Actually no. The son is 20. If he had been molested, he would have come forward by now.

Rekers adopted the boy at 14. There is no indication that Rekers is a pedophile. Also, judging from the Rentboy's side of the story, he prefers friendly, gentle, mutual masturbation. Something that is very, very different from molestation.

There is a very good possibility that Rekers himself is proof that adoption into a gay family is not harmful to children. Here we have a guy who prefers younger men but to his own son was just a dad and a role-model. (Except for the whole lying, scumbag, hypocrite part.) I can not wait to see how opponents of NARTH use this information.

Very good post! If he is a good dad then it falsifies all his work on stopping gay adoptees. However, I think he is not going to admit to being gay.

 

[headscratcher4]

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/george_rekers_will_take_trips.php

Rekers says he will now only travel with his wife....

 

[cwalner]

No, the idea that Rekers molested his son(s) because he is gay doesn't make sense. Homosexual does not equal predator. Even the most self-loathing, closeted homosexual bigot could still be a caring father.

Except it is the exact kind of argument that Asshats like Rekers use to oppose gay parenting.

I actually had an acquaintance express to me surprise that my brother & sister-in-law were OK with me visiting to see my newborn niece. He thought that as a gay man, they would be afraid I would molest her.

 

[Lolly]

He thought that as a gay man, they would be afraid I would molest her.

 

[cwalner]

That was my exact reaction!!! Were you there?

Apparently, it is well known that there is nothing a gay man finds more sexually appealing than a 2 month old baby girl.

In all fairness, at the time I was lusting after a French starship captain portrayed by a 50(ish) British actor and my niece, at two months old, had about the same amount of hair, so I can kinda see the confusion now.

 

[Lolly]

It's just ridiculous on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start being astounded by it.

 

[cwalner]

It's just ridiculous on so many levels, it's hard to know where to start being astounded by it.

What shocked me the most, was not so much the sentiment, but that he seemed to have no idea that I (nor everybody else in the room) would find the concept offensive. It was actually another acquaintance (to become friend after this incident), who was a youth pastor for his church that proceeded to savage him for his bigotry (I was too busy trying to pick my jaw up off of the floor to be able to speak).

 

[Scott Haley]

I did a Google search for biographical information about Dr. Rekers, and I found nothing about him being married. I thought that he was single, and put a post on this thread based on that assumption. According to the Miami new times, he has a wife. I'm sorry I didn't get my facts right.

 

[Roadtoad]

That was my exact reaction!!! Were you there?

Apparently, it is well known that there is nothing a gay man finds more sexually appealing than a 2 month old baby girl.

In all fairness, at the time I was lusting after a French starship captain portrayed by a 50(ish) British actor and my niece, at two months old, had about the same amount of hair, so I can kinda see the confusion now.

That's wrong on so many levels...