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‘Colbert Report’: Rent Boy Handles George Rekers’ Baggage

What could George Rekers, anti-gay Christian right activist and Baptist minister, have been thinking when he went a’fishin’ on Rentboy.com for someone to help him carry his baggage—or as Stephen Colbert puts it in this clip, “hoist his sack”—on a European vacation?

Posted on May 6, 2010 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS


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The European Adventures of a Christian Right Leader and His ‘Rent Boy’

This is the story of George Rekers, a Baptist minister and prominent anti-gay activist who recently took a European sojourn with a young man who said, on his Rentboy.com profile, that he’s “up for anything.” Well, how about a trip to London and Madrid with a card-carrying member of the Christian right?

Posted on May 4, 2010 READ MORE  |  9 COMMENTS


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