Geo is a 20-year-old escort hired by Family Research Council founder George Alan Rekers to
be his “luggage handler” on a 10-day European vacation. (Photo courtesy rentboy.com)
George Alan Rekers said he needed help with his luggage
By DMITRY RASHNITSOV
A man who prided himself on empathetically stating homosexuality was a sin and helping convert people out of that “deviant lifestyle” was caught traveling to Europe on a 10-day vacation with a prostitute from the website Rentboy.com, according to the Miami New Times.
George Alan Rekers, founder of the Family Research Council and an officer with the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality arrived at Miami International Airport on April 13 with Geo, a 20-year-old, 5’9”, 130 pounds, 28” waist size, blonde Puerto Rican boy. The duo had just returned from a European holiday, where according to the New Times article, they both claim no sex had occurred.
“I had surgery,” Rekers said to the New Times, “and I can’t lift luggage. That’s why I hired him.”
Geo’s ad appears on the website RentBoy.com, which states it’s “the world’s largest gay escort and massage site.”
In his ad, Geo states he is looking, “for a sensual meet or companionship. Will do anything you say as long as you ask Repeat encounters are always more exciting for me and make it more casual and comfortable for you as well.”
Rekers lives in North Miami and for years has fought against the rights of homosexuals.
In 2008, Rekers was an expert witness in a case defending Florida’s gay adoption ban. Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Cindy Lederman ruled against the state. In her decision, she said “Dr. Rekers’ testimony was far from a neutral and unbiased recitation of the relevant scientific evidence. Dr. Rekers’ beliefs are motivated by his strong ideological and theological convictions that are not consistent with the science. Based on his testimony and demeanor at trial, the court can not consider his testimony to be credible nor worthy of forming the basis of public policy.”
Rekers also runs the websites FactsAboutYouth.com and TeenSex Today.com, both websites that claim to help teens and educators understand that they don’t have to be gay.
Joe Jervis from the blog JoeMyGod asked Rekers via Facebook to respond to the charges that he hired a male escort. Rekers said, “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, [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 byrelationship with God for all eternity by trusting in Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of your sins, including homosexual sins.”
Rekers goes on to say that on his trip with Geo he, “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.”
George Alan Rekers is a leader in the ex-gay movement in helping turn teens with homosexual tendencies into heterosexuals. (Photo courtesy Family Research Council)
Wayne Besen from TruthWinsOut has been investigating anti-gay leaders for years and exposing their hypocrisy. Besen said he had never heard rumors of Rekers engaging in homosexual activity, but he did step in to help the New Times reporters get the story accurate. He is also contacting mainstream journalists about picking the story up.
“It makes it more delicious and intriguing to expose these hypocrites,” Besen said. “Rekers is propelling the story more than anything by saying he was trying to minister the escort with his ridiculous excuses.”
Besen said that stories like Rekers need to be told by the mainstream press, and that thousands of people are now getting such information from the blogs and not the regular news outlets. “The mainstream press are too slow and too cautious to react,” Besen said. The Family research Council has refused to comment on this story.
