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A reader posted this link in the comments of the post below this one, should you want to listen in at 9pm EDT. UPDATE: Listened to the “call” for ten minutes. Nothing but interminable terrible music before “Rentboy2” mumbled something about having met Rekers, then clicked off. Just some idiot, apparently. My apologies for posting about it.

The Family Research Council would like you to know that they are VERY appreciative of Steve Jobs’ attempts to keep Apple devices free of nasty porn. The new Apple iPad offers consumers plenty of things–including “freedom from porn,” according to chief executive Steve Jobs. In an exchange with blogger Ryan Tate, who disagreed with the suggestion that the iPad is …

“When Attorney General McCollum was asked why he would hire a man like this — who previous courts had said that his testimony was no legitimacy — his response was, ‘Well it wasn’t me who hired him. It was the Department of Children and Families, they hired the expert witnesses.’ Well, surprise, surprise, about two weeks later the Department of …

“It should be frightening not only to the majority of Americans who still affirm that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, but especially disturbing to those whose views on homosexuality are the result of an orthodox view of the Bible which clearly characterizes homosexual conduct as sinful. It should also be alarming for those of us who live in the 45 …

According to a legal ethics expert cited by the New York Times, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has an “affirmative responsibility” to notify the state appellate court that his “expert witness,” Dr. George Rekers, gave false testimony. News coverage has focused largely on his seeming hypocrisy, given that Dr. Rekers, a clinical psychologist and ordained Baptist minister, has written that …

The Florida Democratic Party is blasting Attorney General Bill McCollum for “fiscal recklessness” and demanding that his campaign reimburse the state for the money paid to “expert witness” Dr. George Rekers. Karen Thurman, head of the Florida Dems, writes: Even more disturbing than the total amount paid to Mr. Rekers is the fact that he was paid almost double what …

Florida’s newspapers are continuing to slam Attorney General Bill McCollum over the George Rekers scandal. From an editorial in today’s Tampa Tribune written by Equality Florida’s Nadine Smith: In McCollum’s first statements he stood by his discredited witness, even as right wing organizations were scrubbing Rekers from their websites. As scrutiny of his financial dealings with Rekers deepen, he is …

Rentboy lover Dr. George Rekers used tell the parents of effeminate boys that they could spank the gay out of their kids. Via Miami New Times, here’s how one boy was treated: In 1974, Rekers, a leading thinker in the so-called ex-gay movement, was presented with a 4-year-old “effeminate boy” named Kraig, whose parents had enrolled him in the program. …

British police have dropped the charges against Rev. Dale McAlpine, the American preacher who was arrested earlier this month after a gay police liaison heard him telling passersby that homosexuality a sin. American anti-gay groups immediately began using McAlpine’s arrest as an example of the so-called homofascism that will roil the United States as a result of the passage of …

“Thanks to Rekers’s clownish public exposure, we now know that his professional judgments are windows into his cracked psyche, not gay people’s. But there is nothing funny about the destruction his writings and public activities have sown. His fringe views have not remained on the fringe. His excursions into public policy have had real and damaging consequences on a large …

“Put yourself in the shoes of the teenager, bewildered and frightened by these feelings he or she is not ‘supposed’ to have, feelings of sexual attraction to people of the same gender. You try to deny them, try to ignore them, try to suppress them, but they will not go away. You are all alone, isolated behind a secret that …

Click over to the New Times to listen to their first phone call to Dr. George Rekers. World, meet George Alan Rekers. You’re catching him at an awkward moment. This conversation was recorded the day after Rekers returned from Europe with his male escort, Jo-vanni, and he was in no mood to chat with the press — least of all …

Anther major Florida newspaper is blasting Attorney General Bill McCollum over the payment of $120,000 to Dr. George Rekers as the scandal now threatens to derail McCollum’s bid for governor. From a St. Petersburg Times editorial titled Sleazy Deal Snares McCollum (my bolding): If the attorney general’s office had done its due diligence, it would have discovered that an Arkansas …

Last night Rachel Maddow recapped the latest news about Dr. George Rekers. The items she mentions were all covered here in the last few days, but as always, everything sounds so much more delicious when coming from Ms. Maddow, so here you go.

In a blistering editorial attacking Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum over the Rekers scandal, the Orlando Sentinel has called on McCollum to drop his appeal of the decision to allow gay adoptions as “atonement” for hiring Rekers. The judge in the Florida case, Cindy Lederman, wound up declaring the state’s gay adoption ban unconstitutional. In her ruling, Ms. Lederman wrote …

The anti-gay Liberty Counsel announced yesterday that they would provide legal support to Dr. George Rekers should he follow through on his vow to sue the Miami New Times and its reporters for claiming that Rekers patronized a rentboy. “I think [Mr. Rekers] would have a great case to file a defamation action,” said Mathew D. Staver, founder and chairman …

Musical satirist Roy Zimmerman updates his classic.

Even though he’s still saying the he will sue all the involved parties for saying he is a homosexual, Dr. George Rekers told Christianity Today via email today that he is getting counseling to overcome the “weaknesses” that made him hire Jo-Vanni Roman. “I confessed to the Lord and to my family that I was unwise and wrong to hire …

In 2002 then Florida Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Jerry Regier, another Family Research Council co-founder and a buddy of George Rekers, to head the Department of Children and Families, the very agency now at the center of controversy over Rekers’ payment of $120,000 to testify in against allowing gay adoption. Shortly after Regier assumed the top post at DCF, the …

“There are many jobs for which personal appearance is a legitimate and relevant characteristic. Yet even Anne Lawrence, a male-to-female transgender who has written several academic papers on the issue, has admitted that many transgendered people do not make a convincing appearance in their chosen gender identity. It is simply inevitable that when they see a brawny 6′ 2” man …