AG Paid $60,000 to Anti-Gay Activist Who Hired Male Prostitute

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AG Paid $60,000 to Anti-Gay Activist Who Hired Male Prostitute

George Rekers' "expert testimony" deemed "not credible" by judge

Controversial anti-gay activist Dr. George Rekers, who is now embroiled in his own gay controversy after admitting to hiring a gay male prostitute to carry his bags on a European trip, was paid by a team of lawyers headed by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum in a court case defending Florida’s ban on gays adopting children.

Florida is the only state that bans all gays and lesbians from adopting children, though the ACLU is attempting to overturn the law.


Attorneys for McCollum paid Rekers at least $60,900 and perhaps as much as $87,000 for expert testimony in the appeal of the case. But in his testimony, Rekers claimed gays make inferior and even dangerous parents and that adopted kids living in gay households, even after 10 years, would be better off removed from the home and placed with straight parents.

Here are some excerpts from that cross-examination by ACLU of New York's James Esseks with Rekers on the stand:

Q. You have been retained as an expert witness for the State, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. Before agreeing to be retained by the State, you insisted on getting a retainer, an advance payment from the state. Is that correct?

A. Yes.

Q. What was the amount of that advance payment?

A. $60,900.

Q. Do you intend to bill the State for more funds, in addition to that amount?

A. Perhaps.

The Court: Was it 16 or 60?

Ms. Bass: $60,900.

The Witness: Right, yeah, based on $300 an hour.

A source in the Department of Children and Family Services said Rekers’ compensation went up to $87,000.

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

Why do the human scum always get paid better than anybody else?

[xchrom]

1. Because in spite of evidence to the contrary -

Conservative scum are always assumed to be
more correct than any one else.

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2. His "boy" probably charges about the same amount/hour.

These people are incredible.