# Another "Anti-Gay" Crusader Falls Out Of The Closet **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 5, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349 "2010-05-05T00:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/121 "2010-05-05T18:21:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > This is The Dope, where every cock is enormous and all IQs are over 150. šŸ˜‰ Now THATā€™S a sig line! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/122 "2010-05-05T18:25:06Z")
Sounds to me more like he fell down the up escalator. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/123 "2010-05-05T18:43:26Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I wonder if anti-gay conservatives ever ask themselves, ā€œIf God hates gays so much, why does He think itā€™s so hysterically funny when this happens?ā€ I want to agree with you, but there are so many _more obvious_ questions they never seem to ask themselves about the gay haters turning out to be gay. When does this end? This guy is so twisted Iā€™m half expecting to hear he commits suicide soon. ---
**Author:** ![Sorrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sorrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sorrel)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/124 "2010-05-05T18:49:38Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I want to agree with you, but there are so many _more obvious_ questions they never seem to ask themselves about the gay haters turning out to be gay. When does this end? > > This guy is so twisted Iā€™m half expecting to hear he commits suicide soon. Death By Ohh Too Many Able Seamen? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/125 "2010-05-05T18:56:53Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, I forgot. This is The Dope, where every cock is enormous and all IQs are over 150. šŸ˜‰ That would be Lake Woebegone if the show aired on Sirius instead of NPR. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/126 "2010-05-05T19:06:58Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > It says ā€œIn 1983 Rekers was on the founding board of the Family Research Councilā€ā€¦ but darned if I can find his name on [the FRC history page](http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=HISTORY_ABOUT)ā€¦ It was removed within 12 hours of this story becoming public. They are getting pretty at cleansing their history quickly; it seems to happen so often to them. (They also seem to have had Google purge the cached version.) ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/127 "2010-05-05T19:09:54Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > It was removed within 12 hours of this story becoming public. They are getting pretty at cleansing their history quickly; it seems to happen so often to them. > > (They also seem to have had Google purge the cached version.) Do they photoshop him out of old pictures, too, the way Stalin did? I mean, the way Stalin had people who became un-people removed from pictures, that is. I donā€™t mean that Stalin had Rekers removed from pictures. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/128 "2010-05-05T19:12:49Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Do they photoshop him out of old pictures, too, the way Stalin did? I mean, the way Stalin had people who became un-people removed from pictures, that is. I donā€™t mean that Stalin had Rekers removed from pictures. Stalin was jealous of Rekersā€™s mustacheā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/129 "2010-05-05T19:17:50Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > It was removed within 12 hours of this story becoming public. They are getting pretty at cleansing their history quickly; it seems to happen so often to them. > > (They also seem to have had Google purge the cached version.) [Fished from the memory hole](http://web.archive.org/web/20070608213722/http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=HISTORY_ABOUT), courtesy of the Wayback Machine. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/130 "2010-05-05T19:27:08Z")
[Pick of Reker and ā€œGeoā€ together](http://www.watermarkonline.com/index.php/News/florida-lgbt-news/4177--Gay-activist-vacations-with-male-prostitute-UPDATE-photos-both.html). Guess whoā€™s lifting the bag? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/131 "2010-05-05T19:28:28Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Fished from the memory hole](http://web.archive.org/web/20070608213722/http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=HISTORY_ABOUT), courtesy of the Wayback Machine. The Internet is making it tougher & tougher to remove embarrassments from your history. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/132 "2010-05-05T19:37:05Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Pick of Reker and ā€œGeoā€ together](http://www.watermarkonline.com/index.php/News/florida-lgbt-news/4177--Gay-activist-vacations-with-male-prostitute-UPDATE-photos-both.html). Guess whoā€™s lifting the bag? Just to be sureā€¦ this pic is SFW, right? > [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > The Internet is making it tougher & tougher to remove embarrassments from your history. From the pre-purge page: > [@](#): > > In 1983, the Family Research Council incorporated as a nonprofit educational institution in the District of Columbia; its founding board included Dobson and two noted psychiatrists, Armand Nicholoi Jr. of Harvard University and George Rekers of the University of South Carolina. I wonder what caused Nicholoi to fall into the limbo of unpersonhood. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/133 "2010-05-05T19:39:49Z")
I love how in the above picture of HolyMan and RentBoy it blurs the latterā€™s face just under the shirtless full face pics. (He is cute for a twinkie, Iā€™ll give HolyMan a couple of points for that.) And spoken as a born and bred and slightly inbred southerner with many ancestors who came from South Carolina, WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH SOUTH CAROLINA? Stephen Colbert is from there (well, not ancestrally, but he was born and grew up there) and so did many other intelligent and or rational minded people, how is it that such a disproportionate number of loons are associated with the state? (Itā€™s not even confined to white male evangelicals- there are black CONFEDERATE Civil War re-enactors there! Is it the heat and the swamp gas?) ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/134 "2010-05-05T19:42:06Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Just to be sureā€¦ this pic is SFW, right? That particular picture is. But thereā€™s others on the page with Geo posing shirtless - presumably from his Hertz profile. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/135 "2010-05-05T19:45:04Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > That particular picture is. But thereā€™s others on the page with Geo posing shirtless - presumably from his Hertz profile. > > -Joe In my best Ringo Starr ca. 1968: Iā€™ve heard love hurts, but I didnā€™t know there was Hertz Love. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/136 "2010-05-05T19:46:54Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH SOUTH CAROLINA? Itā€™s the mustard-based BBQ served in the Midlands. That shit just ainā€™t right, and itā€™s foul miasma infects the whole state. Except the area my antecedents mucked about in. That areaā€™s pure. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/137 "2010-05-05T19:51:19Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH SOUTH CAROLINA?) ā€œSouth Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.ā€ ā€“James L. Petigru, 1860 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/138 "2010-05-05T19:52:23Z")
While I donā€™t expect one of these guys once exposed to commit seppuku on pay-per-view (I wouldnā€™t watch but Iā€™d have a tad more respect for them perhaps) itā€™s always amazing to me how they invariably- if married- go back to their wives and upscale houses and rarely even change their showtune and dance on the gay issue. Dobson will drop Reker like a hot potato but Iā€™ve few doubts Reker will still be involved in many right wing homophobic organizations rather than just coming out and admitting his sins and trying to undo the damage heā€™s done (and by denouncing it he could probably undo at least some of it). ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/139 "2010-05-05T19:58:48Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > While I donā€™t expect one of these guys once exposed to commit seppuku on pay-per-view (I wouldnā€™t watch but Iā€™d have a tad more respect for them perhaps) itā€™s always amazing to me how they invariably- if married- go back to their wives and upscale houses and rarely even change their showtune and dance on the gay issue. Dobson will drop Reker like a hot potato but Iā€™ve few doubts Reker will still be involved in many right wing homophobic organizations rather than just coming out and admitting his sins and trying to undo the damage heā€™s done (and by denouncing it he could probably undo at least some of it). Sadly, I think youā€™re right. The wife will stay with him and heā€™ll be painted as a victim struggling with a disease. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349/140 "2010-05-05T20:05:12Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > In my best Ringo Starr ca. 1968: Iā€™ve heard love hurts, but I didnā€™t know there was Hertz Love. Avis ā€“ theyā€™re number two; they try to be harder! šŸ˜› [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-anti-gay-crusader-falls-out-of-the-closet/538349.md?page=8)