I LOVE YOU / YOU PAY MY RENT

[defrog]

So presumably by now you’ve heard the one about George Alan Rekers – who co-founded the Family Research Council with James Dobson and has been one of the most ardent campaigners against gay marriage, gay adoption and pretty much gay anything – shopping for hot male luggage handlers at Rentboy.com.

And I wasn’t going to post on it, if only because so many anti-gay activists have been outed in the last few years that it’s hardly news anymore. Indeed, one could be forgiven at this point for suspecting that the entire anti-gay movement is secretly as gay as a picnic basket.

On the other hand, this is the co-founder of the FRC we’re talking about, as well as someone who claims that homosexuality is curable (but just hasn’t got around to curing himself – maybe it’s not covered in his health insurance plan).

Even better is Rekers’ claim that while he did find “Lucien” on rentboy.com, he had no idea that he was a prostitute:

"I had surgery," Rekers said, "and I can't lift luggage. That's why I hired him."

So basically, Rekers is asking us to believe that he thought rentboy.com was a temp service for hiring household staff and butlers.

Which is, of course, hilarious. It makes Larry Craig’s wide-stance excuse seem believable by comparison.

Obviously, I don’t care if Rekers wants to hire hot young male companions for traveling purposes. And while he’s technically a hypocrite, in a way I do feel sorry for people like Rekers who are – I presume – essentially so needlessly driven by shame about their true nature that they’ll work against their own interests in some mad futile desire to pass for “normal”.

But I’m always amazed that so many people still take these boobs seriously as moral guardians. How many more of these people have to be caught violating their own standards before people finally stop listening to them?

That’s my bag,

This is dF