Tag Archives: NARTH

“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 …

Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell today reveals Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s hypocrisy when it comes to gay adoption. McCollum tried to take my fellow columnist, Mike Thomas, for a ride on this one. After Mike asked McCollum whether he personally supported the ban on gay adoption, McCollum batted his eyes and said he had a gay staffer who had …

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 …

“I know exactly what it feels like to have both sides hating you bitterly. Some Christians will throw him away. Some gays will crusade against him. If there is any truth to the accusations, this may be his opportunity to find a safe environment where he can process the embarrassing, internal battle that conflicts with his Christian ideals. He may …

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 …

NARTH has announced their 2010 convention, which will be held at Philadelphia’s Renaissance Hotel on November 5th-7th. This year’s “ex-gay” confab will be called “Preserving Personal Freedom: The Scientific & Ethical Treatment of Unwanted Homosexuality.” Who’s down for a drop-in? The luggage prop opportunities are irresistible!

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 …

Equality Florida’s Nadine Smith tips us to the below Palm Beach Post grilling of Attorney General Bill McCollum over his backing of Dr. George Rekers as the state’s “expert witness” in their bid to maintain a ban on gay adoption. Smith says she is having their legal team investigate the possibility of compelling the state to sue Rekers to force …

At Pam’s House Blend, Autumn Sandeen notes that NARTH has begun purging their site of documents that reference Dr. George Rekers, including his article about the evils of gay adoption. Man overboard!

And a national news show drags Bill McCollum into the story.

If you missed the live stream of my interview with Austin’s KOOP-FM last night, they’ve now posted a podcast of the show on their site. Hopefully I don’t sound like a tool.

My pal Steve Rothaus at the Miami Herald breaks down how Dr. George Rekers ended up with twice what the state agreed to pay him for his “expert testimony.” Anti-gay psychologist George Rekers charged Florida $300 an hour to testify as an expert witness in a trial defending Florida’s ban on gay people adopting. The state planned to cap Rekers’ …

At 7PM EDT, I’ll be on KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas to talk about the Rekers scandal. I’ve done several of these in the last few days, but THIS time I’m remembering to tell you in advance! Stream the show live here. UPDATE: I’ll post the station’s podcast of the interview tomorrow.

The Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus is demanding that Attorney General Bill McCollum pay back taxpayers for the $120K paid for George Rekers’ fraudulent testimony. Yesterday, McCollum said that on hiring Rekers, “I wouldn’t do it again if I knew what I know today.” But Rekers has built his entire career on peddling discredited junk science and demeaning taxpaying GLBT (gay, …

The Democratic machine in Florida is wasting no time in going after Attorney General Bill McCollum after this morning’s revelation that he personally sent a letter recommending Dr. George Rekers be hired for the state’s defense of its ban on gay adoption. As soon as the story broke that Bill McCollum’s expert witness for Florida’s gay adoption trial was photographed …