Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum yesterday stuck by his decision to hire anti-gay activist George Rekers—the George Rekers who was later caught with a male escort—when the state had to defend its ban on adoption by gay couples.
Rekers, who himself has adopted a child, testified in 2008 in defense of Florida's gay marriage ban, which McCollum supports. As AG, McCollum pushed to hire Rekers over the objections of Department of Children and Families.
McCollum,
who is running for governor, says he wouldn't have hired Rekers had he
known "that about him"—that is, that Rekers is apparently gay.
"Knowing
what I know now, I never would have hired him. At the time, I think it
was the appropriate thing to do," McCollum told the Sun Sentinel. "I didn't know that about him.
But Rekers —
who was a co-founder of the Family Research Council and until the
scandal served on the board of ex-gay group NARTH, which tries to cure
homosexuality — was just not a credible witness. The judge in the
Florida case threw out his testimony, saying it was too ideological. The
judge in a similar Arkansas case, in which Rekers was also an expert
witness for the state, did the same.
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