Are there any right wing anti-gay preachers who aren’t gay? (via Kos):
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.” (Medical problems didn’t stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.)
The call-boy actually appears to have more professional ethics than his client, since he was apparently rather reluctant to rat out the man.
Really, though, how many times do we have to read variations of this squalid little tale? I can understand self loathing, I can understand staying in the closet, but why go out of your way to attack people whose sexual preferences you share. Can’t you be a right wing preacher while maintaining a discrete silence on that issue. After all, there’s plenty of other people to hate in Jesus’ name.
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