I can’t do links from this phone but this story has been repeated several times. I found it most recently on DailyKos.

Stephen Colbert: The Rev. George Rekers, this mastiff of masculinity, is co-founder with Dr. James Dobson of the Family Research Council, and he’s on the board of The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, or NARTH, which is dedicated to turning gay people straight again. So you’ll never guess who this alpha dog recently took on a ten-day, all-expense-paid trip to Europe. Unless…you guess “gay male prostitute.”

Ok, there’s a genuinely funny play-on-words punchline and sure the guy’s a hypocrite. Got that. But the substantial part that keeps getting missed isn’t that Rekers hired a male sex worker even though he’s head of a “gay cure” enterprise.

The real issue is that as head of the enterprise Rekers had access to literally all the best ex-gay “technology,” and access to the best support resources within his network, and a direct financial, professional, and possibly even personal reasons to take advantage of all of them.

And yet…

The substance of the issue isn’t its potential for knee-squeezIng humor or scorn, it’s that even under ideal conditions, and even for Rekers, “ex-gay therapy” didn’t work!.

(Signature: composed on a hand-held — pardon any typos.)