If you click on Florida Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial favorite Bill McCollum's Facebook page today, you'll see a slew of messages demanding that he comment on Dr. George Rekers, McCollum's controversial "expert witness" against gay adoption (one of only two that McCollum brought forth) in a trial in which he was seeking to reverse Miami-Dade judge Cindy Lederman, who ruled that Florida's gay adoption ban — the only one in the country — was unconstitutional.
Why ask McCollum for a comment on Rekers? Because the Miami New Times reported earlier this week that Rekers was seen at Miami International Airport returning from a trip with a male prostitute. Rekers has denied any sexual involvement with the young man named "Geo," whom he allegedly met on the website rentboy.com and hired to carry his luggage. "Geo" is also denying that any hanky-panky occurred.
Rekers is a leading Christian conservative who helped form the Family Research Council back in 1983 with the Reverend James Dobson. In 1989, he and former Florida DCF Secretary Jerry Regier (remember him?) co-wrote an essay called The Christian World View of the Family, which criticized abortion and gay couples forming families.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2010.