Rentboy' Minister Got $120K Taxpayer Dollars From Fla. GOP Gov Candidate -- for Anti-Gay Testimony

[cory777]

Source: Alternet

Fla. Attorney General Bill McCollum is running for governor. Will taxpayers forgive him for doubling the state's payment to George Rekers for "expert" testimony against gays?

Remember Mr. Haney of Green Acres fame? Out of nowhere he'd show up in his truck full of junk and try to sell you something you didn't need for a problem you didn't have.

The characters on Green Acres were smart enough to send Mr. Haney on his way but not Florida's Attorney General (and GOP gubenetorial candidate) Bill McCollum.

When George Rekers, the 61-year-old founder of the rabidly anti-gay Family Research Council showed up full of junk science, discredited testimony and a willingness to say anything to defend Florida's ban on gays adopting McCollum saw an ideological bargain at any price.

Read more: http://www.alternet.org/news/146849/%27rentboy%27_minister_got_%24120k_taxpayer_dollars_from_fla._gop_gov_candidate__--_for_anti-gay_testimony

[SpiralHawk]

1. You just cannot go much lower than Republicon Family Values

Your tax dollars at work, Sunshine Staters. Ptoooey.

Verily, Republicons are THE Latter Day Pharisees.

As they prove over and over and over.

[madmax]

6. +1

[Flaneur]

2. Ha-ha. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

I remember him as a major drug warrior in the US Senate.

[Mari333]

3. give the money baccckkkkkkk

[donco6]

4. People like Rekers are very convenient for states involved in gay legislation.

They can glom onto these charlatans, get them to testify, then keep their hands clean when the shit hits the fan. They don't care one whit what it does to people who hear it, any more than the fundie Christian whackos in Africa thought about what their message might start when they started spreading that anti-gay shit over there.

[Divine Discontent]

5. Africa is what I thought of it too... they are so disgustingly vile

[Grassy Knoll]

7. What the hell were they smokin.....

[CLANG]

8. How do they think these things won't eventually bite them in the ass.

[RedCloud]

9. Off with his heads!

[western mass]

10. How do you think he could afford the rentboys?

[cory777]

11. update

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/12/anit.gay.activist.resigns/index.html?hpt=T1

[Rex]

12. So he didn't do anything wrong, according to the crazy organization

he worked with BUT they scrubbed their website so it says 'page no found' or whatever? Sounds like a bunch of hypocritical fools. How many more will be resigning in the next few weeks?

[Blue Owl]

13. Only in the GOP

can one profit from such hypocrisy.