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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 01:37 PM
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George Alan Rekers, outed homophobe AND a racist?
The damage that Rekers' work has done to LGBT people over the past few years is enough to fill a baseball stadium. Here is a man who has worked hard to promote conversion therapy, and worked hard to make sure laws across the U.S. discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

That's a fact that's not lost on folks like Equality Florida, who are taking their state's Attorney General, Bill McCollum, to task for paying Rekers a whopping $120,000 to appear as a state "expert witness" in a case challenging Florida's ban on gay adoption several years ago. During that case, Rekers and his $120,000-padded wallet suggested that gay folks were dangerous to children. Rekers even knocked Native Americans, suggesting that they were ill-fit to be parents, too.

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/floridas_120000_paycheck_to_anti-gay_leader_george_alan_rekers

Basically here, Rekers says "there's research" that says all Native Americans are all drunks and psychologically traumatized.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/McCollum-paid-60900-to-anti-gay-activist-who-hired-male-prostitute-93042769.html

This could have bigger implications, the court case that can break the backwards gay adoption ban in Florida saw this man act as the star witness for the Defendant (Florida which was defending the ban).

We should make this as clear and as visible as possible.
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