Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, the cliché runs. Which is why the gay media has been all over ex-gay activist Dr. George A. Rekers after the Miami New Times discovered that he had taken a prostitute that he met on Rentboy.com to Europe.
The company Dr. Rekers keeps is of particular concern since he co-founded the ex-gay Family Research Council, was a board member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), and has testified as an expert witness in favor of gay adoption bans in both Arkansas and Florida. Dr. Rekers has been the majority of his career telling the public that homosexuality can be cured.
Blogger Joe Jervis of Joe.My.God goes in depth with the story, and even contacted Dr. Rekers on Facebook. His responses seem, well, rote and rehearsed. It's obvious that Dr. Rekers feels his doctrine and his actions are impenetrable by the strength of faith.
Dr. Rekers is a hypocrite, no doubt. But, tell me, can a man have sex with other men and advocate for ex-gay therapy?
Check out these articles on ex-gay camps and reparative therapy:
Inside 'Ex-Gay' Reparative Therapy
Can Homosexuality Be Cured?
And,
If There Was A Cure, Would You Take It?
One thing is certain, we gays are sure good at being sanctimoniously hypocrites. People like Rekers exist because gay activists did nothing to prevent gays from creating the myth that one can pray away their gay and the best they can do now against them is offer a lame soundbite on CNN.
Want to know why Rekers will escape unscathed? Because the gay community doesn’t care when gay activists impose their own narrowminded views or lifestyle on others and threaten and intimidate other gays.
If they don’t care about, then how in god’s name can they care about Rekers and his long stroke?
NG, I understand your frustration, but gay activists, namely TruthWinsOut.org, have been battling the ex-gay movement for some time now exposing hypocrites like Rekers.
Bad seeds like Rekers aren’t representative of the numerous LGBT people working every day advocating for gay rights by reversing false messages like those spread in the ex-gay movement. I’d encourage you to join Twitter (my username is: abettergaylife), search for #lgbt or #gaymarriage, and watch the stream of very-encouraging conversations happening from open LGBT people.
what exactly has Truth Wins Out done for the gay community? i guess you haven’t noticed but the ex-gay business is still open for business.
as far as twitter goes – i’m already following you – most so called gay activists seem more concerned with having followers than they are about fighting for gay rights.
I think NG is write. Gay community seems to be less effective, if the ex-gay business is still open for business, as NG said. I write from out of USA, so I have not so much chance to start any legal procedure aginst the representatives of th ex-gay business, but it would be necessary I guess.
I can understand the pros and cons of the gay rights movement because as a gay man, I can see many hypocritical actions and thoughts by the gay community as well. The ostracism of older gay men by the community is one such criticism because our community is supposed to be so open-minded. Also if we expect straight society to believe good things about this group why are they so politically-driven to stupidly and the disallowance of differences of opinion from the gay majority (Democrat, liberal, radical-minded in thought and action and so forth). Our community has pained me when I needed support the most. I am not a proponent of complete and utter hypocrisy, that is condoning hate against a group one is part of but I do condone constructive criticism as to the limited view-points of both some conservative, and unfortunately and ultimately religious-based persons, and also liberal gay society. Both are blatantly absurd and I think only add to the animosity towards each other. We are not babies why do we need everything our way, sometimes it is better to understand both sides and take a middle ground. Anyway this is my view on the topic at hand.
The gay “community” does a good enough job of making itself seem terrible that the only thing crazies from other places do is make them seem better. The healthiest thing that would be to happen would be if the gay community were to disappear and for gay people to just be mainstream. Until that happens, we’ll continue to have this “open minded community that fights for the rights of gay people” that shuns people that don’t wear the right outfit for the month or shop at the right stores or weigh the right amount or have sex with enough strangers or whatever other nonsense that people think is important. Being a homosexual is not dead end, but being a gay person in the gay world is guaranteed to end by the age of 40. You’re either kicked out by 40 for being too old or dead of HIV. The guy who’s surprised that the gay community doesn’t accept older guys is funny, though. What would you expect about a community whose entire aims revolve around pretending you are a perpetual adolescent with an uncontrollable sex drive that causes you to do repetitive irresponsible behavior. Gay men are never expected to truly grow up, and then once they’re too old to matter to that culture, they feel left out in the cold. You should have been spending that time setting down roots rather than being a social butterfly at nightclubs for years. That’s how older straight people flourish, so why shouldn’t we as gay people have to do the same thing?