{"id":189218,"date":"2010-05-04T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/04\/questions-that-need-to-be-asked\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T19:24:00","slug":"questions-that-need-to-be-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/04\/questions-that-need-to-be-asked\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions that Need to be Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2010\/05\/04\/are-all-right-wing-anti-gay-christian-bigots-fags\">Is  Every Right-Wing, Anti-Gay Christian Bigot Sucking Off Rent Boys?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that the answer is, &#8220;Yes&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami\u2014the callboy&#8217;s client and, as it happens, one of America&#8217;s most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.<\/p>\n<p>Reached by New Times before a trip to Bermuda, Rekers said he learned Lucien was a prostitute only midway through their vacation. &#8220;I had surgery,&#8221; Rekers said, &#8220;and I can&#8217;t lift luggage. That&#8217;s why I hired him.&#8221; (Though medical problems didn&#8217;t stop him from pushing the tottering baggage cart through MIA.) Yet Rekers wouldn&#8217;t deny he met his slender, blond escort at Rentboy.com\u2014which features homepage images of men in bondage and grainy videos of crotch-rubbing twinks\u2014and Lucien confirmed it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Every Right-Wing, Anti-Gay Christian Bigot Sucking Off Rent Boys? I think that the answer is, &#8220;Yes&#8221;: That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami\u2014the callboy&#8217;s client and, as it happens, one of America&#8217;s most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1030,1021,1075,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq","category-religion","category-sex","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}