WATCH: Rentboy CEO Defends Embattled Business

After the feds arrested him and six other employees Tuesday, Jeffrey Hurant argued his company is legitimate.

After Tuesday's federal raid of Rentboy.com — in which Department of Homeland Security officials arrested seven employees on prostitution-related charges — CEO Jeffrey Hurant is defending the company, and others are joining in.

"Twenty years we've been doing it. And I don't think we do anything to promote prostitution," Hurant, interviewed as he left federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., yesterday, said in a CNN report (watch below). "I think we do good things for good people and we bring good people together. And I hope that justice will be done in the end." Hurant and his fellow defendants posted bond and were released.

Many are livid about the decision to raid Rentboy, including gay writer Dan Savage, who asked on his blog when it became the DHS's "job to protect gay and bi men from buying and selling blowjobs?"

In the wake of the raid, Lambda Legal Tuesday retweeted a link to a statement from last week in which it and four other LGBT groups called for decriminalizing sex work.

Today, the Transgender Law Center released a statement that included the following: