Rekers Resigns From Board Of Ex-Gay Group NARTH

[DeSwiss]

Source: TPMMuckraker

Rekers Resigns From Board Of Ex-Gay Group NARTH

TPMMuckraker | Rachel Slajda | May 11, 2010, 12:32PM


George Alan Rekers

George Rekers resigned this morning from the board of NARTH, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, amid a gay escort scandal. NARTH vice president of operations David Pruden tells TPMmuckraker that Rekers first offered his resignation last Thursday, and officially resigned today.

NARTH is a group that promotes the idea that homosexuality can, and should, be cured. Pruden also denied a report in the Miami New Times that NARTH had been involved in helping Rekers respond to the media.

"NARTH has never had any role in advising Dr. Rekers except to suggest that if he is innocent he needs to get a good lawyer," Pruden said in an email. "He has friends who are members of NARTH and they are free to talk with, advise, and needless to say, they are free to help him in any way they might select."

"NARTH as an organization has taken no official role in this other than asking him to explain to us what has happened and in accepting his resignation," he said. Rekers, who is also a co-founder of the Family Research Council and a member of groups that seek to protect children from homosexuality, was recently caught with a young male escort.

Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/rekers_resigns_from_board_of_ex-gay_group_narth.php

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- I understand that he is not resigning because of the scandal, but so he can spend more time with his luggage......
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[marmar]

1. I guess NARTH decided that he has too much baggage......

nt

[SpiralHawk]

2. They Junked their Boy-O - trying to go all occult and shit.

But ya gotta wonder what kinda kinkee stuff the NARTHsters (R) still have hidden in their trunks?

[activa8tr]

3. GREAT and so true a point!! n/t

[DeSwiss]

7. In the end they found that there was NARTHing they could do for him......

- Okay I'm reaching here, I admit....

[NanceGreggs]

4. "so he can spend more time with his luggage ..."

:rofl:

PERFECT!!!

[DeSwiss]

9. ....

[FiveGoodMen]

14. Very good, indeed!

:toast:

[Tx4obama]

5. Ha! I remember when the story first broke, someone at NARTh said...

"Who is Rekers'?"
and there he was still on the board! LOL ;)

[DeSwiss]

10. Now he's destined to become a Trivial Pursuit question:

"What was the character's name who played Captain Picard's "Number One" on Star Trek The Next Generation?"

[cindyperry2009]

6. Guess the therapy

didn't work. PFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[DeSwiss]

11. Oh, the "therapy" worked just fine....

...only not the way he planned for it to work.

[Ian David]

8. He's resigning to spend more time getting gay massages with his family. n/t

[DeSwiss]

12. Now Ian, it's not gay massages, but "therapeutic" massages.

- To help him deal with the stress of unemployment.....

[Ian David]

16. I didn't know his penis was unemployed. n/t

[DeSwiss]

21. Well yeah....

...now!

[DeSwiss]

13. What I don't quite understand is this part of the NARTH email:

"NARTH has never had any role in advising Dr. Rekers except to suggest that if he is innocent he needs to get a good lawyer," Pruden said in an email.

So if he's innocent, why does he need a good lawyer? Does being gay now require that you retain a lawyer? Or is this just wishful thinking on the part of NARTH?


- In fact, why does he need a lawyer at all? I mean he's already hired someone to screw him, right???

[Ian David]

17. They have lawyers on RentBoy.com? n/t

[DeSwiss]

22. They should if they haven't....

...and I'll bet Lucian has by now.

- I'm just waiting for the book to come out......

[tomm2thumbs]

15. they need to change the name NARTH into BARF - just for accuracy sake /nt

[cindyperry2009]

18. No they need to

launch the new group PROBE

[DeSwiss]

23. The worst of it is.....

...the guy was projecting the whole time.

- Freud would have had a field day with this one......

[bullwinkle428]

27. Well, I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay...

:rofl:

[TlalocW]

19. They've thrown him under the bus...

The pretty, pretty rainbow-colored bus.

TlalocW

[DeSwiss]

24. Yep.

http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2010/05/04/family-research-council-co-founder-scrubbed-off-website-george-reker/">Fucking Up The Families pretty much scrubbed their website of him. And I'm sure similar search and destroy operations are underway elsewhere.

- Time to cut losses, blame the gay agenda, and move on.....

[Aslanspal]

20. I think it was probably heavily hinted that he resign and he still has cronies there

If you could get somebody in there and talk to him and turn him as in turn in some of his cronies at NARTH.

I think this guy loved greed as well and loved his money, he probably asked for a substantal amount to go away...IF NOT..then someone a good journalist could go in there and turn this guy, becuase I think NARTH has a few more fish to fry as with FRC and FOF.

[DeSwiss]

25. They won't be able to get the stink.....

...of Rekers off of them that easily.

- This is Schadenfreudelicious!!!











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[Doctor_J]

26. "Not just a director - I'm also a client"

:rofl:

I don't know why that popped into my head.