Top six people who tried to take down the GLBT civil rights movement but ending up taking down themselves.

By DMITRY RASHNITSOV

Everyone makes mistakes, but not every one spends their life fighting against the gay and lesbian civil rights movement, only to be exposed as a “friend of Dorothy”. Whether they are spotted at a gay bar, or with a male escort at the airport, time and time again, the men who are preaching loudest that homosexuality can be cured, are not listening to their own advice. The Florida Agenda asked gay rights advocate Wayne Besen from TruthWinsOut.org to put together his top six lost of men who have been exposed as hypocrites for fighting so hard to keep the GLBT community down.

John Paulk

Paulk is the former leader of Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out conference and was chairman of the board of Exodus International North America from 1995 to 2000. On September 19, 2000 Paulk was spotted at Mr. P’s, a Washington, D.C. gay bar. Besen confronted him and Paulk said he had stopped in to use the bathroom. “He thought it was a straight bar but it was drag night,” Besen said. Paulk said he had a weak moment but that, “…God loves me he is not going to let me go out on a leash too long and I was discovered in there.” Paulk currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and family where they run a catering business and he appears on Christian radio.

George Alan Rekers

Rekers is a professor of Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Science at the University   of South Carolina and a founding board member of the Family Research Council. The newest victim of the ex-gay hypocrite saga. Rekers was spotted at the Miami International Airport returning from a 10- day European vacation with a boy he found of the gay escort website RentBoy.com. Rekers said the boy was hired to carry his luggage, but the boy said that he also performed nude massages on Rekers once a day and had to share two meals with him everyday. Rekers continues to deny that he is gay. “He introduced a new meaning for carry-on luggage,” Besen said.

Michael Johnston

Johnston was the chair of the National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day and founder of Kerusso Ministries. “He was a sad case,” Besen said. “He is HIV-positive and we found out he was having bareback orgy’s under an assumed name and not telling anyone about his status. He was a hypocrite who used his hips in a video with four other guys in a hotel room.”

Colin Cook

Cook co-founded Homosexuals Anonymous and opened Quest Learning Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. He decided he was going to turn straight and help other young men do the same. “He used to give nude massages but no happy endings,” Besen said. Cook ended up molesting some of the young boys who came to his learning center. His wife ended up divorcing him but he still continues to preach that he cured of his homosexuality.

Michael Bussee & Gary Cooper

Bussee and Cooper founded Exodus International, one of the largest promoters of the ex-gay movement. However in 1979, three years after the group started, Bussee and Cooper left the organization and ended up marrying each other. “ M i c h a e l ’ s done a lot of work for the gay community,” Besen said. Bussee and Cooper continue to advocate against Exodus International and say that they never actually saw the group convert anyone away from homosexuality.

Ted Haggard

Haggard is a former evangelical preacher. he is the founder and former pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado; a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches; and was leader of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). In November 2006, prostitute and masseur Mike Jones alleged that Haggard had paid Jones to engage in sex with him for three years and had also purchased and used crystal methamphetamine. A few days later Haggard resigned from all of his leadership positions after he admitted sexual immorality and methamphetamine use.