NARTH and Family Research Council co-founder George Alan Rekers responded today to accusations that he vacationed with a gay escort. He communicated with Joe.My.God:
I have spent much time as a mental health professional and as a Christian minister helping and lovingly caring for people identifying themselves as “gay.” 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. Mark 2:16-17 reads, “16When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” 17On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” In fact, in a dialogue with hypocritical religious leaders, Jesus even stated to them, “I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. 32For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him. ” (Matthew 21:31).
Like John the Baptist and Jesus, I have a loving Christian ministry to homosexuals and prostitutes in which I share the Good News of Jesus Christ with them (see I Corinthians 6:8-11). Contrary to false gossip, innuendo, and slander about me, I do not in any way “hate” homosexuals, but I seek to lovingly share two types of messages to them, as I did with the young man called “Lucien” in the news story: [1] It is possible to cease homosexual practices to avoid the unacceptable health risks associated with that behavior, and [2] the most important decision one can make is to establish a relationship with God for all eternity by trusting in Jesus Christ’ sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins, including homosexual sins. If you talk with my travel assistant that the story called “Lucien,” 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.
Soooo… ex-gay “science” experts are now curing gay people by hiring expensive prostitutes to accompany them on sunny vacations with the hope of casting an ex-gay spell of salvation upon them.
I thought I had already heard every possible excuse from ex-gay scam artists. But that’s a new one.
I was actually predicting this excuse to come from him not ten minutes ago.
Previously he claimed that he’d hired “Lucien” to help him with his luggage and that he didn’t realise that “Lucien” was a rent-boy until half-way through their holiday, but now he says that he knowingly hires rent-boys in order to evangelize them. Isn’t it all rather reminiscent of John Paulk, who had several different excuses for being in a gay bar in Washington for at least 40 minutes?
He should have taken to heart the advice of Denis Healey, former British MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer: “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.”
So, he didn’t know that Lucien was a prostitute, but he hired him because he likes to evangelize prostitutes – that makes sense, totally believable, no contradiction there.
Oh my God at Jo My God. Rekers is hiring escorts to convert them. How altruistic. :)
Rekers:
“I have spent much time as a mental health professional and as a Christian minister helping and lovingly caring for people identifying themselves as ‘gay.’”
Especially young blond men who advertise a “perfectly built 8 inch cock”?
Oh course, Christine-those are the ones most in need of “saving”!
Hey wait just a second here… Now, I have to consider what this man is saying. Seriously, guys. I mean, last year alone, I hired–oh, I don’t know, twenty Evangelists to pray with me when I was very lost and horny. Some good Christians even donated their time. Yes, we had lots and lots of anal and oral sex but still, we did pray. “Oh God, this is SO good!”, “Aw Jesus, yes I’m coming!” So, let’s be fair. Sometimes they need us and sometimes, we need them. “Dear Lord, you’re so… ah, ah, oh yeah!” Prayer sessions. Really.
So, he hires gay escorts in oder to Evangelize them. Uh, yeah. Sure. You betcha.
Reminds me of the Tulsa Southern B aptist preacher arrested for solicitation out side of a motel in the gayborhood in Oklahoma City. When he was asked what he was doing there, he told the reporters he was there to praty with the gay men and minister to them. I think this is the religious way of saying, I want to get down on my knees and service them. LOL
These guys are all closeted hypocrites.
As I recall this type of “ministry” didn’t work well for Jimmy Swaggart either with females. You would think Reker would have come up with a better excuse…..
Compounding the scandal with more lies, truly the fundamentalist way.
Not really a new excuse. Jesus used to hang out with the lepers and w****s and lowlifes. Reker is just following in His footsteps.
(Please note: I don’t believe for a minute he was doing that. I’m just sayin’.)
This reminds me of a crazy guy in Salt Lake City, he’d pick up boys at this book store, take them to the bathroom at the Salt Palace, have sex with them and then preach at them. It was creepy.
George Alan Rekers: Saving souls one cute little a*s at a time…
Bob G., good point. Rekers has improved on Jesus: He actually pays the lowlifes a fortune in mammon to hang out with him.
Evangelize to people…! Oh really…..Is that what they call it in baptist circles?
I wonder if in his effort to evangelize him, he gave him a spanking.
Evangelize them? Is that what people call it now? Seriously, I’m so unfamiliar with these new sex terms.
“I have a loving Christian ministry to homosexuals and prostitutes in which I share the Good News of Jesus Christ with them.” Only male homosexuals and prostitutes? What about lesbians? Don’t they need to be saved as well? Aren’t they homosexuals? Thank God he doesn’t hang with lesbians! They would rip his dick off and stuff it up his a*s. Oh wait a minute – he might like that!
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When the stories start changing, you know you got a live one.
It’s actually gotten to the point where being the head of a gay treatment group is more or less an outright statement of one’s homosexuality. I hope this guy gets over his shell shock, comes to his sense and joins our side. I bet he could tell some really, REALLY good stories.
And evidently sexual massage is quite an effective tool in evangelizing rent boys. Anyone notice that in the photo of Rekers and Lucien in the airport, Lucien was standing by while Rekers unloaded the luggage?