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Last week Sen. David “Diaper Boy” Vitter easily won the GOP primary in Louisiana despite having been named in 2007 as a regular patron of the famed DC Madam. Vitter later admitted to patronizing prostitutes and committing adultery, but since he’s a hard-right conservative “sanctity of marriage” defender, the GOP has given him a pass. Watch the DNC’s “suspense thriller” …

Rev. Fred Niles, the longest-serving member of the New South Wales parliament and one of Australia’s leading anti-gay activists, is front-page news in Sydney today after an audit revealed that he’d used his government computer to view pornography. A really LOT of pornography, it appears. An audit of NSW parliamentary computers, which has already resulted in the resignation of a …

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 …

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.”

Today Wayne Besen’s Truth Wins Out has posted an expose of the “ex-gay” group JONAH, which has young men get naked and fondle themselves to “get in touch with their masculinity.” They do this in the presence of their much older creepy “therapist,” of course. The clients, Ben Unger and Chaim Levin, alleged that during individual therapy sessions, Downing made …

Former GOP Rep. Scott McInnis, who is running for governor of Colorado, has been accused of plagiarizing work that earned him a $300,000 fellowship from a local education foundation. McInnis claims that the stolen work came from a researcher he hired. From a newspaper editorial calling for him to drop out of Colorado’s governor race: McInnis can make a reasonable …

Father Kevin J. Gray is under arrest in Connecticut for embezzling $1.3M from his parish, money he allegedly spent on luxury vacations and lavishly appointed rentboys. Police have arrested a well-known Roman Catholic priest in connection with the theft of $1.3 million from the Sacred Heart/Sagrado Corazon parish over a seven-year period. Rev. Kevin J. Gray, 64, was charged today …

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who in 2008 dragged his scowling wife before the cameras to resign in a prostitution scandal, has been hired to host a new primetime show on CNN. CNN announced Wednesday that it had hired former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker to helm a new point-counterpoint show in the key …

The beauty of Catholicism is that perpetual clean slate. Pope Benedict begged forgiveness from God and victims of child sexual abuse by priests on Friday and vowed that the Catholic Church would do everything in its power to ensure that it never happens again. Benedict made his comments, some of his clearest ever about the scandal that has swept the …

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 …

British Treasury Minister David Laws has resigned after it was revealed that he had funneled government money to his partner. He was one of the stars of the coalition’s first weeks – but now, in just 18 days, he’s become its first major casualty. The former City-high flyer was charged with getting a grip on public spending and implementing savage …

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 …

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 …

Australia is seeing a Rekersesque scandal of its own as a family values-type member of Parliament was busted on camera leaving a gay bathhouse near Sydney. NSW Transport Minister David Campbell has resigned following revelations he used his taxpayer-funded car to visit a gay men’s sex venue in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. A 7News investigation has revealed Mr Campbell allegedly left …

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 …