Rep. Rouson on video: Being gay is ‘morally wrong’
August 4, 2008 at 5:52 pm by Wayne GarciaGay and lesbian activists are circulating this video clip of a (then-Republican, now-Democratic) Darryl Rouson defending Florida’s prohibition against gay couples adopting children from the state foster care system. He raises the specter of psychological damage to kids who have same-sex parents and calls homosexuality “morally wrong:”
Rouson was not in office at the time of this Florida This Week taping; he is now the incumbent state representative in District 55, being challenged in the primary by Charles McKenzie.
Nadine Smith of Equality Florida sent out the link to her supporters, and others forwarded it on today in advance of Rouson’s appearance at an NAACP forum tonight, which is expected to draw many from the gay community to question him about his take on the subject.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
When CL’s Alex Pickett interviewed Rouson last month, he said he’d been “constant” in his values over the last 20 years. One commenter begged to differ, pointing out that Rouson, after making the anti-gay remarks seen in the 2006 video, came out against a gay adoption ban in 2008 — just as he was going into the special election. When he needs gay votes, he suddenly has an attack of tolerance?