Professor George Rekers: Got Baggage?

[marmar]

via AlterNet:




Posted by bettenoir at 9:05 am
May 7, 2010

Professor George Rekers: Got Baggage?


In a world that has elevated hypocrisy to an art-form, an unprepossessing, virtual unknown emerged this week as the solid frontrunner for the 2010 Superheroes of Hypocrisy Title. By day, George Rekers is a 61-year-old father of three; a Baptist minister; co-founder, with James Dobson, of the Family Research Council – the lobbying arm of US Christianity; a professor of psychology at the University of South Carolina; a sex therapist specializing in teenage gender identity “issues”; an officer of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH); and a prolific author with a bad back. That’s enough to keep two men busy. But, lo and behold, when Daddy gets his ticket punched and slips out of his mild-mannered “Professor George” persona he’s a wild man worth every inch of that Superheroes title.

Professor George’s “closet” is bigger than a walk-in and needs to be, because that’s where he likes to spend his quality time with rent boys younger than his own kids. Not for Professor George, the quick grope in a public restroom or sexting with Congressional aides – no, Professor George is a stylish man of means who knows how to do things right. Professor George took his rent boy on a ten-day tour of Europe, a sublime getaway for man and boy, that might have been a totally fabulous performance except that the good Prof didn’t quite “stick the landing.” George Rekers (gotta love that name) was “caught on camera” coming down the stretch on his triumphal return to Miami International Airport with his rent boy – er, travel assistant – still in tow.

Rekers is an old hand at his chosen lifestyle, though, and immediately flew into damage control mode . . . which makes for entertaining reading because Rekers is no ordinary closet-case; this Extreme Gay Makeover has constructed his entire life around secretly embracing and publicly denying his gender identity. Every waking minute of Rekers day is spent on some aspect of homosexuality. He has two websites dedicated to counseling teenagers who are troubled by gender identity issues – one is called “Professor George” (gimme a break) and the other is called TeenSexToday.com that promises that readers who submit questions can “count on me to be logical, ethical, and scientific in my answers.” Right. This is Rekers’ favorite subject and favorite age group – color me cynical but this is just a front for a cyber-peeping Tom. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/bettenoir/2010/05/07/professor-george-rekers-got-baggage/

[foxfeet]

1. Unfortunately, the piece misuses the term "gender identity."

Sexual orientation and gender identity are not equivalent.

Edit: punctuation

[AnArmyVeteran]

2. Don't you wonder what he was doing in those 'counseling sessions' with young men or boys?

Right wing hypocrisy surpasses all the hypocrisy of all other living human beings since Adam and Steve...

[pepperbear]

3. now if only there were a nice drag cabaret where he could've gotten a disguise.