The blogs have been beating up on Florida Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Bill McCollum for new comments he made about George Alan Rekers, the rentboy expert he hired to testify as a homosexual parenting expert in the state’s gay adoption trial. “You don’t find very many experts out there, people willing to testify, especially on academic campuses that are, actually, very discriminating today against people with views that differ from theirs, especially on issues like the gay issue,” says McCollum. “He was the best expert that was available and willing to testify.” At least he’s being honest?
McCollum knew what he wanted the state to argue in court: That gay parents are not fit to raise children, and thus should be prohibited from taking into their home the abandoned children of others. But to find somebody who was willing to say as much, with a straight face, was an uphill task, given most members of the psychological community do not volunteer to traffic in lies, and follow a code of ethics that prevents them from saying something about sexuality that isn’t at all rooted in reality. So really, Rekers was “the best expert that was available and willing to testify.” He lied during his testimony, sure, but at the very least, McCollum isn’t trying to hide the fact that nobody else would take the stand.
randy
I agree, except his point insinuation that there are tons of people willing to say it, but that the atmosphere on college campuses prevents them from speaking their true minds.
In other words, PC run amok! These brave souls who just want to protect children can’t speak for fear of losing their tenure!
It’s BS and should be called as such.
Chuck
Hard to believe, but he actually isn’t the worst candidate running for Florida governor. Rick Scott, his Republican primary opponent was on Rachel Maddow and CNN several times as the leading scam artist insurance industry insider who produced the lies and astroturf anti-healthcare propaganda last summer. Rick Scott also made all his money by defrauding Medicare, which his company was convicted of the largest Medicare fraud in history!
Homophobe or criminal, Republicans as usual.
B
The worst BS was the claim that Rekers was the only expert willing to testify. You could easily find all sorts who would be willing to testify, with the only problem being that they’d tell the truth, not what the AG wanted to hear.