In the Navy, they sometimes joke, “It’s not gay if you’re underway.”
Perhaps for George Rekers, it’s more like “It’s not gay if you’re in Spain. With a male prostitute. Getting sexytime massages.”
Admittedly, it’s not catchy, but I don’t know that we should expect “catchy” from George Rekers.
Anyway, he gave an interview to Christianity Today, where he “explained himself”:
“With the assistance of a defamation attorney, I will fight these false reports because I have not engaged in any homosexual behavior whatsoever,” Rekers said in a statement. “I am not gay and never have been.”
We get it, George. You don’t like using the term “gay.” In your worldview, it implies a whole set of “chosen” behaviors, and you don’t even listen to Liza Minnelli. (Or do you?) So, you’re a totally, 1000 million percent heterosexual dude who just happens to get boners when prostitutes who advertise on rentboy.com, who you have hired, give you “the long stroke.” We get it.
Rekers’s website states that he “was not involved in any illegal or sexual behavior with his travel assistant.” The statement says, “Dr. Rekers found his recent travel assistant by interviewing different people who might be able to help…
How many prostitutes did he interview until he found the perfect one?
“This rentboy is TOO BIG!”
“This rentboy is TOO SMALL!”
“This rentboy is THREE BEARS! No.”
“Look! This one is just right!”
In a follow-up e-mail to Christianity Today, Rekers said that his wife will be retiring soon and will accompany him on trips when their sons are unavailable.
Um, if he’s so straight, why doesn’t he just go on trips with his wife? Why is she the travel companion of last resort?
“I confessed to the Lord and to my family that I was unwise and wrong to hire this travel assistant after knowing him only one month before the trip and not knowing whether he was more than a person raised in a Christian home,” Rekers said. “I also confessed to the Lord and to my family the sin of thereby putting myself into a vulnerable situation where I tragically became subject to false allegations.”
Um, I didn’t see “more than a person raised in a Christian home” in Jo-Vanni Roman’s advertisement. And have you ever seen a more lame confession? “Dear Jesus: I am so sorry that I have committed the sin of not knowing that people might think I was doing something untoward by hiring a male prostitute. Also I am sorry that others are saying mean things about me, Lord. Please forgive me.”
And, um, didn’t the contract between Rekers and Roman, which specified the duration and the frequency of the nakey massages, air on CNN? Oh, yes, I think it did.
Rekers said he is being advised by a team of three Christian counselors. “And I have committed myself to ongoing meetings with an experienced pastor and counselor from my church, so I can more fully understand my weaknesses and prevent this kind of unwise decision-making in the future.”
I bet those pastors and counselors are smoking hot.
Anyway, whatever. If Rekers does decide to file defamation charges, it should be entertaining. Discovery will probably provide more than a few laughs, and besides, the argument that calling someone “gay” is defamation is not doing so well in the courts these days.
(h/t Joe)
Evan, you are a SCREAM! You are irreverent, but spot-on! I love it.
Yep, LOVE IT, EVAN! This guy has so much baggage he could open his own “Luggage Mart”. The sad thing is, none of this grovelling is necessary–well, except to his wife who has been humiliated–no one deserves this.
If he had gone travelling with his wife instead of a young man from rentboy.com, none of this would have happened. Or if he’d been honest and open and lived his life with integrity and honesty, that would have been the way to go.
So sad, but at the same time painfully-funny.
“Three Christian Counsellors – it’s like an Ex-gay SWAT team.
“Listen punk, put down the temptation and come out with your hands on your head – for a change.
Now…. walk away slowly from homosexuality and no-one will get hurt”.
Who’s his damage control consultant? Larry Craig?
I don’t think even the most stupid, gullible, ‘i wanna believe’ talibangelists will fall for this oh so predictable, here we go again, b******t!
If they can’t fix gay, how can they fix stupid?
I pray that Rekers does sue. We can only imagine what a set of good lawyers will bring out of the woodwork. It would not be pretty. If Rekers thinks he is a laughingstock now, just wait until he goes to court.
Remember, he did not fare so well in his other forays into court. Judges in Florida and Arizona found him to be a fraud with biased testimony. By the time we are through with this charlatan in court, he will be a full-fledged circus act.
So, Rekers – bring it on. We look forward to seeing you in court. Remember, you are the rent-boy renting con artist. You will lose. You will be embarrassed. You will be humiliated. All we would have to do is put you on the stand and you would hang yourself with your own words. Dude, you are not as smart as you think you are. After all, the surreal “lift my luggage” line came right from your mouth. You have been your own worst enemy in this scandal.
Finally, no sexual contact would have to occur for you to be a viewed as gay. Contrary to your propaganda, homosexuality is not simply about sexual acts. The very fact that you:
1) Knew how to find the rent boy website.
2) Went on and made a purchase
3) Took a young hustler to Europe for naked massages while posing as an ex-gay therapist
…is incriminating enough. You are G-A-Y. Those three actions are not the behavior of a straight guy. Stop kidding yourself and come out. Seriously, if you try to make the same asinine arguments in court, you will provide fodder for comedians for the next decade.
Good luck, “home-wrecking Rekers”.
Liberty Counsel has stepped up and said they’ll defend Rekers, which…
Mat Staver, I say this as a friend: THIS is the hill you want to die on? Really?!
I agree with Mr. Besen. After the court case, hand this rentboy subject to any late night host, Joe Rogan, Gabriel Iglesias, George Lopez, and especially LISA LAMPENELLI.
This line is particularly rich coming from that loathesome toad: “I also confessed to the Lord and to my family the sin of thereby putting myself into a vulnerable situation where I tragically became subject to false allegations.” God! “My only sin was that I gave people the wrong idea when I hired a w***e to give me nude massages all over Europe.” Ah hahahahahaha.
Freud would go to town with this–we’d have to add a wing to the library to hold the books he would write about this neurotic, hateful, selfhating slimeball. Number one, Rekers spends his life promoting self hate and self pity–and now that’s what he’s wallowing in it himself. But simultaneously the subtext is pride and arrogance–he’s got it all figured out to the point where he can now lecture God. Fundies have this sickness of false spirituality and arrogance in which they are constantly figuring out what God thinks, telling people what God told them, and lecturing God with their own “revelations.” Hey Rekers–do everyone a favor and pour yourself a nice big cup of SHUT-THE-f**k-UP. I’m sure your wife will appreciate it.
The real thing going on here for Rekers that terrifies him is loss of income, believe me. Cut through all his fake science, lies, cruelty, self pity, and flat out stupidity, and that’s what really has him sweating bullets, guaranteed. I’m sure he’s thinking of ways to turn this whole thing into a money making opportunity. That’s what this b******t fake repentance is about. Same boat Haggard and Swaggart and so many of their kind have been in. Look at it that way and it’s quite hilarious to watch.
I’ve been gone for two weeks, and now I come back to this the whole George “Family” Rekers (say it quickly) shtick. (A RARE true double pun I’m quite proud of). I hope I have the time and energy to write on this. This is a subject I’ve been a burnin’ for.
Unfortunately, I don’t know whether to tell the jokes or write a serious polemic. OK, just one. When they make the Hallmark Channel movie of this, will they call it Broken Back Mounting?
Regan made a comment elsewhere that grabbed me:
“…that marriage and monogamy aren’t the goal of gay people, but through activity like this, are validating the suspicions and stereotypes instead.”
Here’ what I think: of course they’re going to do it… because that’ what the do. They start with a premise: either I hate gays, or my religion tells me to hate gays but I’ll call it love so it’ ok, or, as I suspect with “Family” Rekers, “I smell an opportunity here, and since I have no integrity anyway, why not get rich”.
(It is, BTW, a very common syndrome: witness Wall Street, Faux News, your average congressman, and a host of others. but more anon).
No matter what WE do– no matter how good, how noble, how generous, how loving– it is going to be turned upon us. Because it really isn’t about us, it’ about them, and that is what they do. I’m surprised that they haven’t stumbled upon and exploited the advantages of turning on and devouring their own at all times ‚Äî the Ted Haggards, the Mark Foleys, the Larry Craigs, a good portion of the Catholic priesthood– whatever. Bill Donanhue tried it with the pedophile scandal, but he is such an idiot that no one took it seriously, except for the people who believe what he does. It’ where that belief in redemption always gets in the way of practical politics. It’ why Ted Haggard can start another church of the Holy Flamer.
So many examples of the basic prejudice being the motivator here. We say we want children. They say to molest and convert them. We say we value marriage. they say only to destroy it. We say we are Christians. they say we have corrupted their churches. There is no winning with them, and there is no good will.
All of course, evidence be damned. And that is the clue, because reasonable people look at evidence. If I told you your partner was sleeping with George Clooney, you would probably demand evidence. Evidence is the last thing they are concerned with.
And thus they should be the last thing WE are concerned with. They are an enemy, but I don’t really care what they think, because I already know that they are bigots. I would rather we put our attention on the real enemy, which as I have often said, is not the bigots, but the closet. There are a lot of people who are merely ignorant, sometimes even flat out stupid, but they are not bad people.
And those are the people who matter.
The Rekers boys all work with dad at his religious revival-promotion business, IAII. I find in telling that all of them have MBAs, not DDiv s. In addition, the ad links on Rekers’ webpage to family businesses, 33Dynamics and Think Right Tees [tee-shirts] are down or the businesses defunct.
One son, Matthew, earned his B. S.in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina with a major in accounting, and his M. B. A. degree from Winthrop University. He is a business consultant for 33Dynamics Consulting LLC. He can be contacted at matt@33dynamics. com.
FYI from his website:
GEORGE ALAN REKERS, Ph.D., M.B.A.
12864 Biscayne Boulevard #331, North Miami, FL 33181-2007
E-mail Address: gr@gw.mp.sc.edu — DOB: July 11, 1948
Also: INTERACT INTERNATIONAL, INC. — P.O. Box 2655, Rock Hill, SC 29732
George Rekers, President/CEO (1992 — present) http://www.iaii.org
Steven Rekers, M.B.A., C.P.A.
Vice President
Steven Rekers’ Experience:
Vice President & Financial Reporting Manager
SCBT Financial Corporation
(Privately Held; Banking industry)
March 2006 — Present (4 years 3 months)
SEC and other bank regulatory financial reporting
Senior Auditor
Bauknight Pietras & Stormer, P.A.
(Privately Held; Accounting industry)
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Mark Rekers M.B.A.
Director of Web Ministry
Also: http://www.markrekers.com/
he tweets too at: http://twitter.com/markrekers
a recent tweet:
“Don’t assume “news” is factual. 1:51 PM May 4th via Tweetie”
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Matthew Rekers, M.B.A.
Director of Business Seminars
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