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Over at Good As You, internet sleuth Jeremy Hooper has unearthed lots more of teabagger Christine O’Donnell’s “ex-gay” activism, including this tidbit which quotes NARTH.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, the man who paid Dr. George “Rentboy” Rekers $130,000 in his bid to keep gay adoption illegal, has lost his GOP primary bid to become his state’s next governor. Former health-care executive Rick Scott clung to a narrow lead over Attorney General Bill McCollum on Tuesday night in the race for the Republican nomination for …

With the Florida primary less than a week away, GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, who is trailing Attorney General Bill McCollum by 12 points, has launched an all-out effort to further saddle McCollum with the George Rekers rentboy scandal, as evidenced by the above mailer Scott sent to voters this week. Readers of this blog temporarily shut down McCollum’s Facebook …

In her inimitable style, Rachel Maddow breaks down how the “work” of Dr. George “Rentboy” Rekers played a role in today’s ruling. Watch and enjoy!

Florida AG Bill McCullom still opposes gay adoption, despite his $120,000 payment to George Rekers turning into a national laughing-stock. “I don’t believe the gay family model is good for the kids.”

On May 25th, Prop 8 witness David Blankenhorn wrote to the New York Times complaining that columnist Frank Rich had wrongly associated him with Dr. George “Anal Longstroke” Rekers. My expert report to the court — which was written entirely by me, includes a list of scholarly sources and is available for anyone to read — includes no mention of …

Florida’s newspapers are keeping the pressure on state Attorney General Bill McCollum. Today the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed that McCollum hired Dr. George Rekers even though his own staff warned him strongly against it. Which proves, again, that McCollum is a liar, as he’s previously he claimed that he only hired Rekers because his staff told him to. E-mails released Thursday …

You’ve really got to be a scumbag when other scumbags won’t be seen with you. After being disavowed by the Family Research Council (which he co-founded) and by NARTH, for whom he wrote extensively and sat on their board of directors, Dr. George Rekers has now been dumped by that fake pediatricians group fronted by NARTH members. Wayne Besen reports …

The University of Minnesota’s Dr. Gary Remafedi is furious with NARTH for falsely citing his work on their website and in the letter sent to the nation’s schools by their fake pediatricians group. The letter, and the Facts About Youth website it pointed school officials to, was dense with footnotes citing scientific studies. Remafedi’s research was at the top of …

If you are interested in being a presenter at NARTH’s convention this November in Philadelphia, you must submit your proposal by July 1st. The theme this year is “Preserving Personal Freedom: The Scientific & Ethical Treatment of Unwanted Homosexuality.” Email Kim Niquette at [email protected] with your ideas.

We’re into our third week of radio silence about Dr. George Rekers from Porno Pete LaBarbera, despite Petey’s voluminous history of citing the “scientific” work of NARTH. Wassamatta, Petey? Rentboy got yer tongue? Or something else? Instead of manning up to the scandal enveloping his colleagues in the hate industry, today Porno Pete attacks Ellen DeGeneres because she had a …

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.

Following up on the New York Times story about the legal implications of the Dr. George Rekers scandal, Amanda Terkel at Think Progress has found four instances of Rekers’ ties to the Perry Vs. Schwarzenegger trial to overturn Proposition 8. I don’t usually excerpt another blogger’s work so extensively, but this is a must-read. 1. Blankenhorn was the defendants’ star …

“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 …

The Florida Democratic Party continues their “Give the money back, Bill!” campaign. Via press release: Today, the Florida Democratic Party sent an invoice to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on behalf of Florida taxpayers, requesting that he pay back the over $2.4 million that he has spent for his own personal gain and partisan agenda. The invoice bills McCollum’s campaign …

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. …

“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 …